After clearing previous conversations, the previous conversations re appear

[Andytater]

Binary package hint: empathy

1)Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.
2) Empathy 2.28.1.1
3) The problem: I cannot clear previous conversations. Neither by clearing in the chat window itself, nor by viewing previous conversations.
4) The previous conversations re-appear.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 3dcd6542489a576c5b3052ca7db7e6d0
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Sat Jan 2 17:04:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic-pae
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic-pae i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2384): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2497): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2477): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2476): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

i reproduced this in empathy 2.29.5 under lucid

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607143

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

chat with someone and then press ctrl+l to clear chat text then close empathy
and again start and chat with the contact and text that was cleared previously
is still there.