To fix it for me I deleted ~/.config/Empathy/chatrooms.xml, restarted Empathy, and joined the rooms again. They were saved as favourites, and Empathy now connects automatically to those rooms I have marked as "Auto-Connect".
In other words this seems to be some kind of distro upgrade bug.
To fix it for me I deleted ~/.config/ Empathy/ chatrooms. xml, restarted Empathy, and joined the rooms again. They were saved as favourites, and Empathy now connects automatically to those rooms I have marked as "Auto-Connect".
In other words this seems to be some kind of distro upgrade bug.