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[Michael Alexander <ftmichael@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #7519
   http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7519

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317897

Title:
  pidgin crash with Pulse Audio

Status in Exaile:
  Invalid
Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pidgin

  $ pidgin 
  E: mainloop.c: ERROR: cannot create wakeup pipe
  **
  ERROR:pulsemixerctrl.c:215:gst_pulsemixer_ctrl_open: assertion failed: (c->mainloop)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: pidgin 1:2.5.3-0ubuntu2
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: pidgin
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic x86_64

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