What to do when Skype freezes silently?

Tied of constantly and silently freezing Skype I've created simple wrapper for this - it's a python daemon which constantly checks it via DBUS skype API, and restart process when notifies it's frozen. Hope someone finds it useful.

https://github.com/kapliars/doctor-skype

Just a small contribution on an EXC Q&A Thread..

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10, I was having the exact same issue described (Skype silently froze, no messages could be sent/received, etc)

I don't have a /usr/lib32 folder, and under /usr/lib/ there's no libpulse.so.0.12.3, or any of the libpulse files MENTIONED HERE. I did find the files libpulsecore-1.0.so and libpulsedsp.so, I only made a

sudo chmod a-r libpulsecore-1.0.so 

and the problem dissapeared!

libpulsedsp.so also exists and needs to be modified. For me calling someone only worked after the following commands:

sudo chmod a-r libpulsecore-1.0.so 
sudo chmod a-r libpulsedsp.so