Skype 4.3 displays a blank window

I installed skype 4.3 in two different containers: an Arch container set up with pacstrap, and a Debian unstable container set up with debootstrap.
I'm running the containers using systemd-nspawn:
xhost +local: && systemd-nspawn -bD /opt/arch.skype
Within the containers, I created a simple user for skype. In the Arch container I installed skype from the official repos, in Debian I installed the deb package after installing the following packages:
apt-get install libasound2:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386 libqt4-network:i386 libqt4-webkit:i386 libqt4-xml:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqtgui4:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxss1:i386 libxv1:i386
Besides that, I can't remember any relevant configuration I made.
Point is, whenever I start Skype, the window is empty. When I started it using the Debian container, I managed to click away the first small EULA window by randomly clicking everywhere in the window, but the next window was blank as well (and my guess would be this is the login window).
Current Arch version: Linux 3.16.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 6 08:22:27 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Hi Ron,
Try deleting this file.
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Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, emtpy the Trash and restart your Mac.
If that doesn't help, right or control click that image, then click Get Info.
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