Comment 32 for bug 162701

Confirming the fix of setting "Tools -> Preferences -> Sounds -> No Sounds" in Pidgin for "random" crashes (after sending a message.. EVERY message). This only started happening after I purged config files following another annoying repeat crash bug, after receiving a message in a window that is out of focus. Seemed to occur more frequently if pidgin-libnotify was in use (Jaunty notifications). I'm quite sure it has something to do with pulseaudio now. I never liked that thing..

My crashes occured like this:
Starting program: /usr/bin/pidgin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7f886495a7d0 (LWP 18347)]
[New Thread 0x7f8848b3f950 (LWP 18367)]
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
[New Thread 0x7f884323a950 (LWP 18376)]
[New Thread 0x7f8842834950 (LWP 18377)]
[New Thread 0x7f8842033950 (LWP 18378)]
[Thread 0x7f8842033950 (LWP 18378) exited]
[Thread 0x7f8842834950 (LWP 18377) exited]
[Thread 0x7f884323a950 (LWP 18376) exited]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f8848b3f950 (LWP 18367)]
0x00007f8842dfe610 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007f8842dfe610 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007f886155e459 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0x00007f88612cafcd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Yeah. In start_thread. How bad is that?! If pthread is throwing exceptions you almost want to reinstall the OS.