Dear Maintainer,

Pidgin on my system crashes constantly after some time, usually less than 2
hours, sometimes after a few minutes, without an apparent reason.  I
can leave it open without doing anything, at some point it will crash.
The error reported is

    Assertion 'pa_close(fd) >= 0' failed at pulsecore/core-util.c:340,
function pa_make_secure_dir(). Aborting.

Please find attached a full backtrace.

Thanks for the attention,
Mosè

J

udging from all the messages in the log about JACK, my first inclination
would be to purge all JACK-related packages from your system, and make sure
your gstreamer and pulseaudio settings don't point to JACK. If you don't
want to do any of that, you can try disabling sounds in Pidgin.

Dear Ari,

thanks for the reply.

2015-03-27 2:07 GMT+01:00 Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>:

Just to try, I installed jackd and run

    jackd -d dummy

at startup, in this way Pidgin never crashed but there was no sound
from it.  Then I removed it.  The only JACK related package I have now
is libjack-jackd2, but it's requested by other packages.

I checked Pulseaudio settings with pavucontrol, there is no reference
to JACK in output devices.  How can I check gstreamer configuration
without gstreamer-properties, so without pulling down gnome-media
package and its 138 MiB of dependencies (I'm running KDE)?

Bye,
Mosè

2015-03-29 17:53 GMT+02:00 Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org>:

% gconftool -R /system/gstreamer/0.10/default
 videosink = autovideosink
 chataudiosink = autoaudiosink
 audiosink = autoaudiosink
 videosrc = v4l2src
 visualization = goom
 audiosink_description = Default
 musicaudiosink = autoaudiosink
 chataudiosink_description = Default
 audiosrc_description = Default
 audiosrc = autoaudiosrc
 musicaudiosink_description = Default

% gsettings list-recursively org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements music-audiosink 'autoaudiosink'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements
music-audiosink-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements sounds-audiosink 'autoaudiosink'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements videosink-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements videosink 'autovideosink'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements videosrc-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements videosrc 'v4l2src'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements
visualization-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements visualization 'goom'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements chat-audiosink 'autoaudiosink'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements audiosrc 'alsasrc'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements
chat-audiosink-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements audiosrc-description 'Default'
org.freedesktop.gstreamer-0.10.default-elements
sounds-audiosink-description 'Default'

Sound method is set to Automatic here.

I should mention I have this issue since no more than a couple of
weeks or so, before that Pidgin never crashed.  I didn't changed
anything in Pidgin recently.

Bye,
Mosè

Oh yeah, my bad.