Ubuntu
friends package

  1. Bug #1189229
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1189229

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Robert Bruce Park (robru) wrote : Re: friends-dispatcher (Empathy) crashes almost always, usually after screen lock due to inactivity, when I unlock screen I have the "Sorry, Ubuntu 13.04 has experienced an internal error"

Friends is not a replacement for Google Talk. Friends does not connect to Google Talk at all. In fact, Friends does not connect to any Google technologies. Friends and Empathy are unrelated components that don't interact in any way. Friends downloads messages from things like Facebook and Twitter, it's a social media client. Empathy is an instant messenger client, it would connect to Google Talk or Jabber or MSN messenger or similar.

That screenshot identifies a UnicodeDecodeError happening in friends-dispatcher, but does not contain enough information for me to actually resolve the problem. What I need you to do is click on the 'Continue' button and actually submit that error report. You might also want to check the 'Ignore future errors of this type' checkbox, since it seems to be happening to you a lot.

I also vaguely recall fixing a bug like this recently, so please update your system to all the latest packages and that might resolve the issue. Or if we're unlucky it might be a new issue.