Empathy's main window doesn't open in elementary os

Bug #1445469 reported by ramtinq
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1416487: empathy segfault when started. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Installed Empathy from the Software Center and it's main window doesn't open, trying to run it from terminal, I get these (witch I think maybe it's elementary Gtk 's problem) :

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** (empathy:7599): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-hHlYpszjdv: Connection refused

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_icon_activatable: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(empathy:7599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_get_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(empathy:7599): Gtk-CRITICAL **: _gtk_widget_get_preferred_size_and_baseline: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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OS version : Freya Stable

Tags: empathy
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kec.sml0001@yahoo.com (kec-sml0001) wrote :

Try this

sudo apt-get remove empathy
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install empathy
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

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