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empathy package

  1. Bug #1116281
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1116281

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Jakub Budiský (jakub-budisky-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

@bwat47 & @Donato Roque:

I have found out that bug with "No online contacts" is connected to another crash (segmentation fault) with different conditions that this bug has, but I'm not able to reproduce it reliably. Here you can found incomplete tries to report that:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1130219
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1117583

What I know, empathy's GUI is killed but there are still running some parts (telepathy?) in background and you are still connected to working services without empathy's GUI, which is obviously not able to "re-bind" or restart whole "process hierarchy" and cannot display online contacts. So, please, if you found out how to reproduce this, It would be nice if you could open one of that bugs (or another if it is not that crash you are experiencing).

Empathy's development state is critical, I also experience another reported crashes with it. Unreliable and insecure. But it is not moving anywhere, unfortunately.