Created bug 1529445, which is about a different fd leak in gstreamer 1.6.0 itself that can result in the exact same crash in pidgin as this bug.
It's not as straightforward as this bug in that it doesn't leak constantly for all users, but requires, for example, not having a sound card or some other error to play sounds (that's two different reports from users who got crashes). Mentioning this here mostly because until today I thought this was yet another bug in pidgin that wasn't fixed, but no, it's a problem in gstreamer. Or rather, ubuntu in general, which doesn't do SRUs of bugfix-only releases until someone decides to point out that it's critical enough. *sigh*. Don't mind me, it's like 4am and I feel like I wasted most of my day with this dumb issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479715 Title: Crash due to fd leak when playing sounds in pidgin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1479715/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
