People Nearby account in empathy will not allow me to assign a picture to personal information

[LSL]

Binary package hint: telepathy-salut

When selecting a user icon in all other accounts in empathy that support custom pictures there is not an issue, but since the upgrade from Lucid to Maverick the people nearby account no longer lets me use any picture for my user icon. I get a "Couldn't convert image: None of the accepted image formats are supported on your system" error now.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: telepathy-salut 0.3.12-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 30 16:22:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: telepathy-salut

[Baptiste (b-gaultier)]

Same problem here!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: telepathy-salut 0.3.12-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 27 10:22:55 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: telepathy-salut

[Giorgi Maghlakelidze (dracid)]

Same here!

x32 Maverick with latest updates!

This is sort of a HUGE papercut...

[Nikhil P Joseph (madfly8082-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

i can confirm the problem.

people nearby account on x64 maverick. never used to happen on lucid.

[padwec (padwec)]

Same here on x32 Maverick.

Would anybody know of a workaround ?

[S. D. (akjag)]

Confirm on Maverick, x86-64

[S. D. (akjag)]

Apparently also, launchpad questions:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+question/140204
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+question/146680