** Description changed: Binary package hint: empathy I received the following message when the sound capture failed during an audio call: There was a failure in the call engine: Could not link source - The underlying problem turned out to be incorrect configuration of the default gstreamer source. I had /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc set to "osssrc" while I did not have OSS installed. + The underlying problem turned out to be incorrect configuration of the default gstreamer source. I had /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc GConf key set to "osssrc" while I did not have OSS installed. ALSA-based applications worked perfectly so I had no idea why empathy would fail. The problem became obvious when I executed the following command: gst- launch-0.10 gconfaudiosrc ! gconfaudiosink The output clearly showed what went wrong: ERROR: from element /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0: Could not open audio device for recording. Additional debug info: gstosssrc.c(379): gst_oss_src_open (): /GstBin:bin0/GstOssSrc:osssrc0: Unable to open device /dev/dsp for recording: No such file or directory I think it would be great if the empathy error "Technical details" showed this information or at least hint what it was trying to do (open the "gconfaudiosrc" gstreamer element). Even a slight modification of the error message could make it vastly more useful: "Could not link gstreamer source 'gconfaudiosrc'."
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