Killing pulseaudio sends pidgin to 100% CPU

[Jamie Bennett]

After doing a killall pulse audio, an already open pidgin reports through top a CPU % 99 until it is kill and restarted.

Running Hardy with all latest updates.

Pidgin version:

pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

pulseaudio version

pulseaudio:
  Installed: 0.9.10-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9.10-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.10-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Thanks for the report. Is this bug still reproducible?

If you turn sound of in pidgin (Preferences > Sounds > No Sounds), is the bug reproducible then?

//magnus

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.