skype dies after starting up on ubuntu machine?

Question

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and facing problem with ubuntu? On my machine Skype starts, asks to log in and then presents its list of connections. However after a couple of moments the list of connections gets
"inactive" (greys out) and finally disappears.

In the crash window that then pops up I see that something with libc.so.6 seems to be amiss.

Any idea what I can do to fix the problem and where do I find the info that is in the "crash report window" so I
could add it to this email if needed?

Comments

In case you are using 4.2 then it is no longer supported.

Answer 1

1. Open a file manager.
2. View Hidden files
3. Look in the following folders
   .Skype/
   .cache/
   .local/

There is a dot or period at the beginning of all these folders.

Comments

thanks for your answers,  I could finally solve the Problem by deleting the hidden .Skype directory.