Comment 29 for bug 361731

An update on this for karmic.

I've done quite a bit of hacking around the last couple of days to try and get things working.

It seems the problem is the interaction between empathy, telepathy and the gnome keyrings.

Things worked fine for me when I set up a fresh account.

I then observed that my own account had two keyrings and wondered if that was the issue. Lots of hacking around, removing keyrings, .mission-control etc followed.

Eventually, I just deleted the lot and got a working system.

On my netbook I was also having problems. Deleting the existing jabber account and re-creating worked, but only when I chose "use existing account" as opposed to "create new".

I'm afraid up to now I haven't been able to create an easily reproducible way of generating the bug, but figured this report might a. help others get empathy working and b. point a developer in the right direction.