GYachI crashes in SUSE 11.3, Can't find help on it

[signmeuptoo]

Alright. The day before yesterday I *upgraded* to SUSE 11.3 from 11.2 and other than one single exception that required my input, all went smooth as silk for the install.

I was excited to see that, in Kopete, my webcam, a Microsoft VX-3000 actually worked for the first time! But I discovered that apparently Kopete doesn't support voice chat, even though webcam works.

So after searching for an application that would do BOTH webcam AND voice, I found out about GYachI/GYachE. It was installed via RPM from Packman. The install didn't appear to have any exceptions when it took place. However, whenever, in KDE, I attempt to start GYachE, before the window for it can even appear for more than 1/4 second, it disappears, evidently crashing (I gather).

Now I am not super Linux savvy. There is so much I have not learned, and one of those things is how to find out what failed when starting this application. I assume there is some sort of log file, but I have no idea where it is, what it is called, or how to use it even if it does exist.

I can live without voice chat, but I sure would like to have it! I have searched for an answer and found nothing to help so far.

Can anyone advise me what I can do, or does anyone know why it isn't working?

BTW, I am using the 64 bit version of SuSE 11.3. I wonder if that has to do with the problem...

I am loving 11.3 so far. I use KDE and plan on adding stuff from the KDE site. 11.3 seems to be a solid distro from my end. I hope there is a way to solve this issue.

Thanks for reading this and any help you might be able to offer!

[gogalthorp]

Try starting in a console window and report the errors.

Can't help with the OS packages but Skype seems to work ok

[signmeuptoo]

Ok, will do, question though: Don't I need the path to the program executable? How do I find where it is? Thanks for replying!

[signmeuptoo]

Ok, it says "segmentation fault".

I tried running it in GNOME, and also in KDE failsafe mode, no joy.

[gogalthorp]

Obviously there is something wrong with that package. I was hoping for a missing lib message but.... You might try building from source if you have your heart set on this app. Or maybe try getting in touch with the packager.

Most of the Repos' are down today for maintenance

[signmeuptoo]

Oh, that is why I was having issues with the YaST repository process!

I tried running a ./configure of the thing and I am having a problem with:

No package 'libgtkhtml-2.0' found

But when I check in YaST, it appears to be on my system...

[signmeuptoo]

When I run the autogen, I get this at the end:

onfigure.ac:15: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
if no errors occured, run ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode

Any ideas?

[signmeuptoo]

I got it working sort of, but when trying to start the view webcam, I get this:

The GyachI external webcam broadcaster could not be found:

/usr/libexec/gyachi/gyachi-upload