Comment 26 for bug 513346

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pvh (pvh-webbedfeet) wrote :

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