"People nearby: Network error" when nickname not set

[Marius Gedminas]

Binary package hint: telepathy-salut

After installing telepathy-salut, every time I start Empathy I get "People nearby: Network error". This is a really unhelpful error message. It goes away and Salut starts discovering people nearby if I press the button to edit my account info and type something in the (empty by default) nickname field.

Please make the error message more informative. "Nickname not set" would work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 19:39:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: telepathy-salut 0.3.10-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: telepathy-salut
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686