I'm having this exact issue ever since installing Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf). It was never an issue before. I had my Pidgin sounds set to use ALSA. Changing them to "Automatic" made no difference. Pidgin crashes and closes itself out seemingly at random, whether I'm using my computer at the time or not. No connection to playing other sounds or videos.
installed libpurple version is 2.10.11 installed pulseaudio version is 1:6.0-0ubuntu13 Crash error contains this line: Pidgin GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_poll_get_read_gpollfd: assertion 'set != NULL' failed It looks to be the same as this bug from 7 years ago: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7519 Some good discussion is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470000 Everything I'm finding on this is from 2009, though. I don't know why it's suddenly appeared in a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10. ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #7519 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7519 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317897 Title: pidgin crash with Pulse Audio Status in Exaile: Invalid Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: pidgin $ pidgin E: mainloop.c: ERROR: cannot create wakeup pipe ** ERROR:pulsemixerctrl.c:215:gst_pulsemixer_ctrl_open: assertion failed: (c->mainloop) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: pidgin 1:2.5.3-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: pidgin Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bug/317897/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
