Previous Conversations window expands itself off the screen

[eimajenathat]

Binary package hint: empathy

Release: Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop, x86, Unity
Package: Empathy 2.34
Expected: Open Previous Conversation window for a contact and be able to read through old conversations.
Actual: When the Previous Conversation window loads the old conversations, the window expands continually, to the right. At first it seems to be trying to accommodate a large amount of text, but expansion continues indefinitely. After the expansion had been going for about a minute, the window decoration went away for the entire desktop. I think that means Unity crashed?

This happened several times for me. On a whim, I tried changing the Theme used to present the conversation from Simple to Ubuntu, and that seems to fix the issue. Still seems like a proper fix might be a good idea.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 4 15:42:27 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (6 days ago)

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

Also experiencing this.

I notice that it begins to happen only when I select the "Conversations" tab and select a contact in the left pane.

After it expands off the edge of the screen, the titlebar of the window displays strange white artifacts; horizontal lines of moving static.

If it is relevant, I have a dual-head setup and am using fglrx.