I don't think installing Telepathy is the way to solve the problem. This bug has been detected and reported in LTS version, and since it has been confirmed by many users (and seems to be a possible source for the bug), it should be fixed in LTS version.
I've used Pidgin today and it still works properly so, as Stuart comments, can be an useful workaround while the bug is beeing fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676828 Title: Contacts does not show up in empathy contact list Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy This mostly happens when empathy starts on ubuntu startup, when opening empathy it shows no contacts in a contact list. It does not show anything with 'Show offline contacts'. Restarting empathy is the only solution that works (sometimes even that doesn't work). Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Package: empathy Installed: 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 18 11:02:23 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy LocalLibraries: /usr/local/lib/libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0.3.1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/676828/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
