[ Thanks to Daniel
for this link. ]
“Recently, Skype stopped working for me and some other
users that are using the Beta release of Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10).
This error is due to an update to the ia32-libs library. The newest
version (ia32-libs_20090808ubuntu5) breaks Skype.“The solution for this is to downgrade ia32 libs to version
‘20090808ubuntu4′. If you can’t force the old version
(ia32-libs_20090808ubuntu4), you can download it at:”