I ran into the same issue. To improve searchability for this, the messages you see on the console from this are:
ERROR: cannot create wakeup pipe (Pidgin:8924): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_poll_get_read_gpollfd: assertion 'set != NULL' failed (Pidgin:8924): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_poll_write_control: assertion 'set != NULL' failed (Pidgin:8924): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gstsystemclock: write control failed in wakeup_async: 24:Too many open files (Pidgin:8924): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_poll_free: assertion 'set != NULL' failed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479715 Title: Crash due to fd leak when playing sounds in pidgin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1479715/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
