Hello! Ari reassigned the bug you reported to gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio which shows up in the backtrace of the crash. I don't think this is where the problem is. Instead I think the segfault is just a result of the repeated mistreatment of the gstreamer pipeline. The fact that it works if you don't use the pulse sink just shows that the alsa sink is better at taking a beating. I'm guessing you still get the critical warnings even when using the alsa sink, right?
I asked Sebastian "slomo" Droege for advice and he recommended running with G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings enabled. This should generate a back on the first critical gstreamer warning which will hopefully provide more information about the actual cause of the problem, rather then the symptoms. It would be very helpful if you could try reproducing this with the pulsesink again but by running "G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings pidgin" from a terminal and report back the output! I'll try to look at the Gstreamer CRITICAL warning messages we already have and try to make sense of the pidgin code in the mean time... I'm certainly not a gstreamer expert, so any help would be very much appreciated! -- Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
