Empathy on Ubuntu 11.10 is incredibly slow. Incredibly. May have halted my system.

[Jason held]

Binary package hint: empathy

On Ubuntu 11.10, when I run empathy and try chatting with someone, the chat box is incredibly slow. It has halted the system, and is almost completely unresponsive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.1.2.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 19 15:54:18 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-19 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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