Even if your ALSA device is muted, I think the problem is that Pidgin is talking to PulseAudio, which for some reason can't talk to ALSA. The PulseAudio gstreamer plugin is queuing up all the sound events, waiting for the ALSA device to become free. ALSA devices receive audio data whether they are muted or not.
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