Ioannis, I had the same issue (Ubuntu 10.04 i386 here). What I did is shut down Empathy, then look for telepathy processes. This shows what I saw:
mymachine$ ps ax |grep telepathy 5081 ? SL 0:03 /usr/lib/telepathy/mission-control-5 12370 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-haze 12371 ? S 0:11 /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-gabble 20761 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-butterfly 21656 pts/4 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto telep 25622 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-salut
I then killed those, and restarted Empathy. This solved my problem. To answer your question about killing a process by name, use:
killall telepathy-butterfly
Ioannis, I had the same issue (Ubuntu 10.04 i386 here). What I did is shut down Empathy, then look for telepathy processes. This shows what I saw:
mymachine$ ps ax |grep telepathy telepathy/ mission- control- 5 telepathy/ telepathy- haze telepathy/ telepathy- gabble telepathy/ telepathy- butterfly telepathy/ telepathy- salut
5081 ? SL 0:03 /usr/lib/
12370 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/
12371 ? S 0:11 /usr/lib/
20761 ? S 0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
21656 pts/4 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto telep
25622 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/
I then killed those, and restarted Empathy. This solved my problem. To answer your question about killing a process by name, use:
killall telepathy-butterfly