Empathy change status exception

[Mihai Capotă]

When I try to change status for Empathy, I get the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/ui/browser.py", line 1563, in _activate
    self.data_controller.activate(ui_ctx=self._make_gui_ctx())
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/core/data.py", line 798, in activate
    res, ret = ctx.run(leaf, action, sobject, ui_ctx=ui_ctx)
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/core/commandexec.py", line 303, in run
    ret = activate_action(execution_token, obj, action, iobj)
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/core/commandexec.py", line 80, in activate_action
    return _activate_action_single(obj, action, iobj, kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/core/commandexec.py", line 86, in _activate_action_single
    ret = action.activate(obj, iobj, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/kupfer/kupfer/plugin/empathy.py", line 148, in activate
    simple_presence.SetPresence(iobj.object, _STATUSES.get(iobj.object))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "SetPresence" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.SimplePresence" doesn't exist

I'm using Kupfer version 0+v206-0ubuntu0~mav~kupferhope (from PPA) on Ubuntu 11.04.

[Nikola Petrov (nikolavp)]

This is caused because of IRC accounts which don't support the SetPresence dbus method. Look at the simple script here http://askubuntu.com/questions/40842/how-can-i-automatically-set-my-status-to-busy-when-empathy-starts/64018#64018 which will fail if you have an irc account.