Public bug reported:
Pidgin kept crashing every time I put my computer to sleep. I spent a
bit of time diagnosing it today. The crash happens in
gst_device_get_display_name(). Even with all Pidgin accounts disabled,
unplugging a USB audio device causes a crash. This here is gdb output:
Thread 1 "pidgin" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff7d5c1b5 in gst_device_get_display_name ()
from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff7d5c1b5 in gst_device_get_display_name ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#1 0x00007ffff6fa1519 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpurple.so.0
#2 0x00007ffff7d4ff21 in ??? ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstreamer-1.0.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff720db9b in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007ffff720f1d7 in ??? () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007ffff720f577 in g_main_loop_run ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007ffff7955971 in gtk_main ()
at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#7 0x0000555555597c14 in main ()
I think this may be https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-18142
If I enable debuginfod in gdb, then that freezes or takes way too long,
so I did this without debug info.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.14.14-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-27.27-generic 7.0.6
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.34.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Jul 17 16:10:06 2026
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-07-05 (12 days ago)
** Affects: pidgin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute third-party-packages
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Pidgin crashes when disconnecting USB audio device
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