After creating an account in Empathy connecting to Skype via "bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus" Empathy repeatedly failed to connect with Skype. I can confirm that the workaround as described in comment #13 by Peter Wagner solves this problem for me.
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Linux 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux pidgin-skype 20100302+dfsg-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567248 Title: skype in empathy (bigbrownchunx-skype-dbus) with pidgin-skype -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
