I believe I was able to resolve my problem by muting all sounds within Pidgin. It is probably important to note that every other application on my laptop can play sound without crashing my system. Hopefully this helps you as well.
-- pidgin randomly crashes with Segmentation fault https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253980 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
