Having two Empathy clients connected to MSN causes reconnect loop

[RKDN]

Binary package hint: empathy

I have Empathy installed on three of my computers and two at work.

I will try to explain what happens to the best of my ability.

1. Empathy is open on Computer A and logged in to MSN.
2. I open empathy on Computer B. Empathy logs me on for about 10 seconds.
3. Empathy on Computer A steals my MSN connection back and I get cut off on Computer B.
4. This continues over and over with Computer A and B both fighting to stay connected to MSN.

The way that pidgin addresses this is that it will stay disconnected until you click reconnect.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

It is not an Empathy problem, when you have two clients trying to connect on different machine (or two different on the same one) you can't be connected with both at the same time. Jabber (XMPP) allows that, but not MSN, which only allows one connection per account at a time. Set status as "Invalid", because we can't have any action on msn servers.

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Oh, in fact, we should "break the loop" at some time... Sorry, I misunderstood your problem. I will report this upstream. Reset as "New"

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Nicolas, you shouldn't just assign bugs to yourself when your are not working on them. This bug is fixed upstream and can be closed when the "telepathy-mission-control" package reaches version 5.1.1 (currently 4.67). Thanks.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This is now fixed in karmic. The package "telepathy-mission-control" has been removed from karmic (bug #423677) and the new "telepathy-mission-control-5" has entered the repository (now version 5.2.2). Thanks for reporting.