Thanks for the report and sorry for the delay, I'm updating xenial and uploaded a SRU for wily
** Also affects: pidgin (Ubuntu Wily) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu Wily) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu Wily) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1479715 Title: Crash due to fd leak when playing sounds in pidgin Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in pidgin source package in Wily: Fix Committed Bug description: The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding pidgin. This problem was most recently seen with version 1:2.10.11-0ubuntu4, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/7470d12c4e88f72501f718f2e8fd6469b2cb650f contains more details. Upstream bug: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16752 Partial backtrace: #0 0x00007f0e72819b24 in g_source_attach (source=source@entry=0x0, context=0x0) at /build/glib2.0-ajuDY6/glib2.0-2.46.1/./glib/gmain.c:1163 #1 0x00007f0e74b848b8 in gst_bus_add_watch_full_unlocked (bus=<optimized out>, priority=<optimized out>, func=0x56004c7ceeb0 <bus_call>, user_data=0x56004e00aa40, notify=0x0) at gstbus.c:885 #2 0x00007f0e74b849e0 in gst_bus_add_watch_full (bus=0x7f0e14009260 [GstBus], priority=0, func=0x56004c7ceeb0 <bus_call>, user_data=0x56004e00aa40, notify=0x0) at gstbus.c:936 #3 0x000056004c7cfb3a in pidgin_sound_play_file (filename=<optimized out>) at /build/pidgin-hiYwOJ/pidgin-2.10.11/./pidgin/gtksound.c:543 #4 0x000056004c7cf927 in pidgin_sound_play_event (event=PURPLE_SOUND_SEND) at /build/pidgin-hiYwOJ/pidgin-2.10.11/./pidgin/gtksound.c:616 [Impact] * Each sound played will leak a file descriptor. * Crash (null pointer dereference) after playing sounds roughly 1000 times (depending on fd limit) * Depending on the amount of activity, this can mean every few hours for some users (it's once for each received or sent message) [Test Case] 1. Set the file descriptor limit low enough to be able to login, plus a few extra. "ulimit -Sn 20" works for me 2. Start pidgin 3. Tools menu -> preferences -> sounds tab 4. Click "preview" 10 times or so 5. Acquire crash [Regression Potential] * The fix consists in adding two lines, returning FALSE when a sound finishes playing or when an error happens, which tells gstreamer to free those file descriptors, so it's highly unlikely that this could make things worse. * A user who reported this bug yesterday was given a .deb file with the fix, who also distributed that fixed .deb to other 50 users who also had the issue in ubuntu wily. Everyone is happy now. [Other Info] * This fix will be included in pidgin 2.10.12, set to release very soon. * The bug originally happened because of the backported gstreamer 1.0 patch that was also introduced in post-2.10.11 development versions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1479715/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp