[Solved] bitlbee/skype connection trouble

Question

Hi all, been trying to solve this problem for a while now but to no avail, there doesn't appear to be much out there that offers any hints for where to look. I'm trying to get bitlbee, irssi and Skype working together, but every time I try to connect my Skype account, I just get connection time-outs or messages telling me it's unable to connect:
22:15 -!- mode/&bitlbee [-C] by root
22:15 <@root> Password accepted, settings and accounts loaded
22:15 <@root> Trying to get all accounts connected...
22:15 <@root> skype - Logging in: Connecting
22:15 -!- mode/&bitlbee [+C] by root
22:17 <@root> skype - Login error: Connection timeout
22:17 <@root> skype - Logging in: Signing off..
22:17 <@root> skype - Logging in: Reconnecting in 5 seconds...
22:25 -!- mode/&bitlbee [-C] by root
22:25 <@root> Password accepted, settings and accounts loaded
22:25 <@root> Trying to get all accounts connected...
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Connecting
22:25 <@root> skype - Login error: Could not connect to server
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Signing off..
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Reconnecting in 5 seconds..
22:25 -!- mode/&bitlbee [+C] by root
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Connecting
22:25 <@root> skype - Login error: Could not connect to server
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Signing off..
22:25 <@root> skype - Logging in: Reconnecting in 15 seconds..
22:26 <@root> skype - Logging in: Connecting
22:26 <@root> skype - Login error: Could not connect to server
22:26 <@root> skype - Logging in: Signing off..
22:26 <@root> skype - Logging in: Reconnecting in 45 seconds..
Now, I have skyped set up and running on the machine, skype4py is authorised in the Public API tab of Skype, using the default port etc. but whether I connect from a remote machine or the same one, it just times out. Strangely, when I try to run skyped -l for logging, it just shows me the help message. As far as I can tell, it has executed just fine as it gives no errors. The username is correct, as is the password I'm using. I've generated the necessary certificates, as per this guide.
$ skyped
skyped is started on port 2727, pid: 635
I can't find any log files to check for this so I'm a little bit lost as to what to do next. I can use bitlbee to connect to MSN no problem, so I don't think that's the issue. I imagine it's to do with skyped, but I don't really know how to check, so if anyone could provide any advice on the matter I would appreciate it. Even just a pointer in the right direction would help immensely. Hopefully one of my fellow Archers has this working.
Last edited by JHeaton (2012-04-01 15:16:36)

Answer 1

Hi pshevtsov, thank you for the reply. I checked and although skyped was starting Skype, it was not continuing to run so I tried it with --nofork as you said and I got this error message (this also appears to be the error shown in the latest comment on the AUR page for skype4py).
[joel@glitch ~]$ skyped -n
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/skyped", line 120, in skype_idle_handler
    skype.skype.SendCommand(c)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Skype4Py/skype.py", line 778, in SendCommand
    self._Api.send_command(Command)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Skype4Py/api/posix_dbus.py", line 207, in send_command
    result = self.skype_out.Invoke(cmd)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'Invoke'
Exiting.
[joel@glitch ~]$
I don't really know enough Python to work out how to sort this issue out and can't seem to find anything on the Sourceforge project page in terms of troubleshooting.