Comment 7 for bug 535455

you might be facing bug 546338 and please change empathy theme to default
and see if the issue is still there.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:12 PM, pablomme <email address hidden> wrote:

> It would be very useful if somebody other than myself could confirm this
> problem. The issue appears to be one of input handling/sanitation, which
> ought to be relatively straightforward to fix.
>
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> Conversation lines misassigned in empathy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535455
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>
> Status in “adium-theme-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> This is on up-to-date Lucid installed from alpha 3.
>
> This bug has just happened once in several days of using empathy. See the
> attached screenshot. On the left is the conversation window as it was
> displayed during the conversation, and on the right is the "Previous
> conversations" log, displaying the same part of the conversation. The
> conversation window is wrong, the log is correct.
>
> In short:
> - A line sent by one speaker (yellow) at 1:01 was not displayed
> - The line sent at 1:02 by the yellow speaker was assigned to the green
> speaker (!!)
> - The line sent at 1:03 by the yellow speaker disappeared too
>
> Note that all lines were correctly received, since they are in the log.
> Could it be a problem with the Ubuntu chat theme? I don't know to what
> degree a theme could scramble conversations, though.
>
> This was with the MSN protocol, by the way.
>
> There is little I can do to test any fixes, since the bug has happened only
> once without anything sensibly identifiable as a trigger. But hopefully
> someone familiar with the code might know where to look and find the
> problem.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Wed Mar 10 01:33:53 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100224.1)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: empathy 2.29.91.2-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.153-rt
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-rt x86_64
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