GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735993
Lync calls crash Pidgin using SIPE plugin
Last modified: 2016-02-21 23:33:49 UTC
Some details from previous bug 724244: { The Pidgin SIPE plugin to connect to Microsoft Lync servers will crash if a phone call is attempted. The backtrace seems to indicate an issue in gst-plugins-ugly. You may find backtraces in the fd.o or sf.net bugs. See these bug reports for more information: http://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/bugs/217/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71253 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028784 } My personal observation is that pidgin will crash only if somebody tries to call me directly (an incomming call). But once I call somebody, it doesn't crash, works fine. The problem is present still from older versions even up to the current stable 1.4.1 one. As can be seen on one of the provided URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71253 , the farstream developers already pointed with finger to gstreamer to be the responsible for these crashes. But Michael Cronenworth in the previous bug 724244 said he made some own tracing of the problem back to the farstream again, and he made some patch "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=925254" for older version of farstream 0.1.2. Therefore it is still unclear which of those two - gstreamer or farstream - is truly responsible for the crash. Regarding providing you further debugging details (Full debugging symbols for all involved libraries would be good. Perhaps also run pidgin in valgrind to see if it picks up anything.), I'm affraid I can't as I'm not that skilled with debugging, but I'll try ask that Michael, which looks like a skilled "probably" developer.
Please note that I was debugging voice calls and not video calls. The Fd.o bug is for video calls. The Red Hat bug is a duplicate and I just closed it. Voice calls were failing (w/ farstream 0.1.2) at this point: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032295#c17
I would like to see a stack trace with full debugging symbols involving GStreamer 1.4 and/or a valgrind log with the same.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please note that I was debugging voice calls and not video calls. The Fd.o bug > is for video calls. The Red Hat bug is a duplicate and I just closed it. > > Voice calls were failing (w/ farstream 0.1.2) at this point: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032295#c17 I was also talking about voice calls, of course.
I purposely left myself off the CC list due to lack of time to debug this. I only spent the time to debug the current version of Pidgin because I couldn't work with Pidgin crashing any longer. Unless Pidgin would consider accepting my work to compile with gstreamer 1 I, as Tim-Philipp feels, don't see a need to pursue this.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!