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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317897 Title: pidgin crash with Pulse Audio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bug/317897/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
