IRC contact list missing since last update

[Michael]

Binary package hint: empathy

Since I updated empathy yesterday on Maverick (I don't know if I missed any updates in-between, the one before was a few days old) the IRC contact list has disappeared. In the "Conversation" menu it is enabled. In fact, when I updated yesterday, it disappeared when I reconnected to a channel, whereas it stayed visible for a channel to which I didn't loose connection. Today it is missing for all channels.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.31.91.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 14 10:47:20 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1702): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (bluetooth-applet:1694): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
 (nautilus:1698): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Interestingly enough, the empathy window now also automatically expands when I type in a long line of text, so that it always stays on a single line, and I can't shrink it again until I have pressed "enter".

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Update on this. It turned out that for some reason the default width for the contact section of the window had gone to zero for all IRC channels I use. I resized those sections with the mouse and they stayed put. The funny behaviour with empathy autoresizing itself when I write a long line of text is still present, so that I often have to move the empathy window while writing to keep what I am writing on the visible screen.

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Strange, this morning when I started empathy IRC the contacts were gone again. Of course, now I know where to look for them it is not such a problem, but it still doesn't seem right.