Pidgin sounds stop working requiring reconfiguration

[Colan Schwartz]

For a while, the default sound configuration worked flawlessly. Then Pidgin went mysteriously silent. It became necessary to play with the settings over at Tools -> Preferences -> Sounds.

I changed the Method from "Automatic" to "ALSA". That worked for a while, and then it stopped too.

I discovered that this really needs to be set to "Command" with "aplay %s" as per the following:
* http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#SoundLinuxandUnix-likeplatforms
* https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+question/53712

The configuration should work out-of-the-box. It shouldn't be necessary to play around with these settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: pidgin 1:2.7.11-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 22 15:07:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SourcePackage: pidgin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (145 days ago)

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. Sorry we don't always have the resources to get to every bug report. Ubuntu 11.04 is no longer supported so I'm going to close the bug.