Group membership is not saved on client restart.

[Potterbm]

Binary package hint: empathy

When empathy goes offline then online, or my account is disabled and re-enabled, or when the chat client is quit and restarted, some small number of randomly selected contacts are displayed either in the "Ungrouped" or default "Buddies" groups. It's not always the same contact, but there seems to be several contacts to whom this happens more frequently.

If it matters, the only account that I use is IBM Sametime.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 18 16:02:28 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
SourcePackage: empathy

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Ditto. I tried putting all my contacts in "Friends", and after a restart, many of them were back in "Buddies". This happens with different protocols (including linked clients), e.g. MSN, FB chat, and in Empathy 2.32 and 3.0.

[Ernst (ernst-blaauw)]

Here, it happens with my Facebook contacts.
I'm running Natty 64-bit.

$ apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.34.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette)]

It seems to pull the group memberships from the chat service each time empathy is opened. For example, if you have a group setup in your facebook contacts, then each time you open empathy, the members of that group will be listed in that group, even if you changed it last time you were in empathy.

I'm not sure this is a bug, or more a feature request to the empathy team.

[Matt Parlette (matthew-parlette)]

If you wish to change your group layout, I would suggest doing it in facebook, or google talk, or whatever other service you use, then it will show up in empathy that way.

[Utku Erdoğdu (utku)]

I guess if the intention were to read and display groups without changing them, there would not be an 'add group' feature at all or it would not be possible to change groups by drag&drop.

The problem might be related to libfolks. I think libfolks use all backends read only and if the change group operation is implemented through libfolks, nothing will be updated at the backend server.

[Juan David Ruiz (zuirdj)]

#6 is not working for me. I recreated facebook groups and all contacts in new groups are listed as "Ungrouped". This was working before, and it seems that new Facebook group system changed everything

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Thank you for taking timein filing the bug to make ubuntu better.
its the problem with the facebook not empathy bug.

[Utku Erdoğdu (utku)]

Why is this a facebook problem? Does new facebook group system prevent manipulation of groups or what?

[Wendell de Souza Pereira (wendell-souza)]

not make sence

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Utku Erdoğdu <email address hidden>wrote:

> Why is this a facebook problem? Does new facebook group system prevent
> manipulation of groups or what?
>
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> duplicate bug report (890718).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/765123
>
> Title:
> Group membership is not saved on client restart.
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> When empathy goes offline then online, or my account is disabled and
> re-enabled, or when the chat client is quit and restarted, some small
> number of randomly selected contacts are displayed either in the
> "Ungrouped" or default "Buddies" groups. It's not always the same
> contact, but there seems to be several contacts to whom this happens
> more frequently.
>
> If it matters, the only account that I use is IBM Sametime.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Apr 18 16:02:28 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386
> (20101007)
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=C
> SourcePackage: empathy
>
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