Ubuntu
pidgin package

  1. Bug #317897
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 317897

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Michael Alexander (ftmichael) wrote :

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.