MSN account (telepathy-butterfly) vanishes when password is removed from keyring
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Unknown
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Medium
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
I have Empathy hooked up to an MSN account, which uses telepathy-
account: butterfly/
If that stored password is missing, the account completely vanishes from Empathy's Accounts list. It does not seem to disappear from ~/.mission-
This does not happen with any other protocols. (Normally, Empathy will just recognise it needs a password for an account).
I recently switched my default keyring from Default to Login, which triggered the issue.
This can cause data loss (in a practical sense), since the conversation logs for that vanished account are no longer available from Empathy's interface.
Steps to reproduce:
* Add a telepathy-butterfly account in Empathy
* Quit Empathy, make sure telepathy-* and mission-control are not running. (Probably not necessary, but just to be sure).
* Open Seahorse. Search for a password with “account: butterfly/msn” in the description and delete it.
* Log out and log in, again just to be sure.
* Start Empathy. Note that the MSN account is missing.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 11 10:38:53 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/zsh
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LANG=en_CA.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
(polkit-
(nautilus:12432): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
Changed in empathy: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
The issue is an upstream one and should be sent to the people writing the software.