cannot add IRC account during initial setup

[Peter Hurley]

Binary package hint: empathy

Initial bug report is here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/433714)

This is a regression in Natty - it's not possible to setup an IRC account without creating some other account (non-IRC) in Empathy first.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-0.1-core2-rt 3.0.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.0-0-core2-rt x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 18 13:27:10 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi,

I'm on a fresh install of Natty and I don't have this problem. After selecting 'Yes, I have an existing account I want to use' (I think that's the option) I can choose IRC as an account type, among a long list of others. Is this the option you're selecting too?

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[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 16:00 -0400, Brendan Donegan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on a fresh install of Natty and I don't have this problem. After
> selecting 'Yes, I have an existing account I want to use' (I think
> that's the option) I can choose IRC as an account type, among a long
> list of others. Is this the option you're selecting too?

This bug (and the original report) is for the situation when the user
does not 'have an existing account'.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I just switched to Guest session and started empathy and I had the option there to setup IRC account and it worked.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Peter, Its really helpful if you use the title of the bug focusing on the problem, makes it easy for us to find.

[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 06:10 -0400, Omer Akram wrote:
> I just switched to Guest session and started empathy and I had the
> option there to setup IRC account and it worked.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Regression of bug #433714
> + cannot add IRC account during initial setup

This report (and the initial report #433714) is about setting up an
*new* IRC account with empathy when no accounts are defined.

When you start empathy and no accounts are defined, the "Welcome to
Empathy" dialog is displayed with 3 radio buttons.

From there, if you select "No, I want a new account", it is not possible
to create an IRC account. The only account type listed is Jabber.

This was reported as Fixed Released in #433714 which makes this a
regression of that bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for empathy (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]