status message does not appear when status set to busy or away

[elodsson]

Binary package hint: empathy

When status is "available", status messages work fine (although it would be nice if web addresses would be clickable in status messages), but when status is set to "Busy" or "Away", the custom status message does not appear, although it was freshly set.
Note: the same problem is occures with Pidgin. Is it a coincidence, or it is not because of the IM client?

Version of Ubuntu: 9.10 Desktop edition

Version of Empathy package (data collected from Ubuntu Software Center): 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 (empathy)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 31 18:49:05 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=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1761): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1856): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1883): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:1855): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -4 and height 24
 (firefox:2544): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. I believe this is fixed in the most recent version of empathy. Please try installing empathy from the telepathy PPA at https://edge.launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic and verify that it is.

[elodsson (elodsson)]

Thank You very much for the quick answer. I wasn't able to download the
newest version, that You linked me to, but i will wait till the 10.4
appears, and i'm pretty sure, it is included, and will work.

May God bless Your work and Your life!

2010/3/31 Brian Curtis <email address hidden>

> Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. I believe
> this is fixed in the most recent version of empathy. Please try
> installing empathy from the telepathy PPA at
>
> https://edge.launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic<https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Etelepathy/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=karmic>
> and verify that it is.
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> status message does not appear when status set to busy or away
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552655
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> When status is "available", status messages work fine (although it would be
> nice if web addresses would be clickable in status messages), but when
> status is set to "Busy" or "Away", the custom status message does not
> appear, although it was freshly set.
> Note: the same problem is occures with Pidgin. Is it a coincidence, or it
> is not because of the IM client?
>
> Version of Ubuntu: 9.10 Desktop edition
>
> Version of Empathy package (data collected from Ubuntu Software Center):
> 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 (empathy)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Mar 31 18:49:05 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=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
> XsessionErrors:
> (gnome-settings-daemon:1761): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error:
> assertion `src != NULL' failed
> (nautilus:1856): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
> `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1883): GLib-CRITICAL **:
> g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (gnome-panel:1855): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
> allocate widget with width -4 and height 24
> (firefox:2544): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/552655/+subscribe
>

[elodsson (elodsson)]

Hi!

The empathy version included in 10.4 beta2 isn't the newest one? Because it
also has the above mentioned problem. When changing status to busy, i cannot
set a custom status message. I mean i can do the procedure, but the message
shown is still "Busy".
Please, check.
Thanx.

Elod

[Norbert Moldován (moldovannorbert)]

If I understand you right, this means you can see your own status message, but your contacts can't see it, right?

I have this same problem on MSN and Yahoo! protocol, but nothing is wrong with gtalk.

[Norbert Moldován (moldovannorbert)]

Oh, and I'm using version 2.30.0

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

Are you still having problems with this on 10.04 Lucid Lynx? If so, can you include detailed steps to reproduce this problem? Thanks!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!