Negative unread counts without rhyme or reason

[Luke Faraone]

When I open up chat windows after seeing them in the message bar I see negative unread counts in the message list.

Screenshot is attached.

Might be related to #1262980 (duplicate entries for chats in the message list)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: empathy 3.8.6-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 20 01:34:12 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-18 (277 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-23 (26 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Low: If it's just the count that's wrong it's not a big issue

[Łukasz Fidosz (virhilo)]

It's not just that, sometimes the messages from 'negative' count are not showing at all in message window, you have to read them from conversation history, which means you need history window opened on daily basics.

[Ján Neščivera (yohny)]

I can confirm this too (running 13.10 x64), when somebody starts GTalk conversation with me i get the notification pop-up, messaging icon is also highlighted, but when i open the chat window it is empty and title says -1 unread. However in conversation history i can see the mesasge. Sometimes after a while message appears on top of conversation (even if title still says -1 unread) When i reopen the conversation window the message is there too.