"Favourite Rooms" feature doesn't work in 12.10

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I have a few #ubuntu-* rooms selected as favourites on freenode, but those marked to be autostarted do not autostart after I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10. Also, they are not displayed in the "Manage Favourite Rooms" window for my freenode account (but are shown if I select "All accounts"...).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: empathy 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 27 00:00:15 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-11 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-25 (1 days ago)

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for the bug report
you wanted to say that you have marked them autoconnect but they dont until we chose join favourites ? is that you facing ?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

No, because "Join Favourites" doesn't help either. I can only connect individually to a room via the "Join..." option. In other words, the whole favourites feature is simply useless to me right now.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

To fix it for me I deleted ~/.config/Empathy/chatrooms.xml, restarted Empathy, and joined the rooms again. They were saved as favourites, and Empathy now connects automatically to those rooms I have marked as "Auto-Connect".

In other words this seems to be some kind of distro upgrade bug.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks
seems working fine for my side
we need empathy debug log while reproducing this bug ?
you can get the empathy debugger window while running empathy-debugger in terminal

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi Bilal,
As I mentioned, the problems happened when upgrading from Precise to Quantal, and considering that I fixed it for myself, I'm no longer able to reproduce the bug easily. It would requre that I reinstall Precise and repeat the dist upgrade. Too much effort considering that I'm not involved in the maintenance of Empaty. Sorry.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

closing the bug if you can reproduce it feel free to reopen this bug thanks