I've experienced the same behaviour. Not sure if it's exactly the same error, as I'm not used to read core dumps. I hope this is the right thread, as you can find a couple if you search for "startup". Gaim was running on system shutdown, on startup i got the crash report. No skype here. What was a bit weird: First startup didn't work, the system seemed to be frozen. I had to push the power button, even "Ctrl-Alt-SysReq + RSEIUB" didn't work. But that might not be related.
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