empathy disappear when switching to another window

[MANGA Willy Ted]

Binary package hint: empathy

System: Ubuntu 9.10
Version of empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1

I don't know how and why but when i switch to another window on my computer, empathy disappear from my desktop :( . When I reload it, it comes back and reuse the old connections (here I mean that I do not need to enter my password again) .
I notice it after I have tried to add some XMPP contacts in my list.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 13 14:15:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[MANGA Willy Ted (manga-willy)]

Le mercredi 13 janvier 2010 à 13:47 +0000, om26er a écrit :
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
>
> * Is this reproducible?

I don't know how to reproduce it. I only remembered that I was trying to
add xmpp contacts and it looks like they were an issue when syncing with
my contacts in Evolution ...

Right now the persistent issue is that empathy doesn't show up at
launch. I have to relaunch it in order to see the main window :(

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

closing this as the reporter don't face it now(assuming from the last comment). and there seems to be no way to reproduce this.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

om26er: just because the bug isn't reproducible doesn't deem it invalid immediately. Willy, could you see if you still have the issue of empathy disappearing when you switch to another window. If you do not have this issue anymore please mark this bug as invalid. If you have another issue feel free to open up another bug report.

[MANGA Willy Ted (manga-willy)]

Le vendredi 29 janvier 2010 à 19:07 +0000, Brian Curtis a écrit :
> om26er: just because the bug isn't reproducible doesn't deem it invalid
> immediately. Willy, could you see if you still have the issue of
> empathy disappearing when you switch to another window. If you do not
> have this issue anymore please mark this bug as invalid. If you have
> another issue feel free to open up another bug report.
>

Hello brian, it doesn't disappear anymore but as I was saying in my
previous comment, empathy doesn't show up when I start it.

[MANGA Willy Ted (manga-willy)]

My issue right now seems to be related to this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/454623