[Bug 454623] [NEW] [karmic] Empathy needs to be started twice to see the buddy list

[Johannes Maibaum]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

I discovered that if Empathy has not been started before in the current session (e.g. right after booting into your desktop or after having quit Empathy through Chat -> Quit (CTRL+Q) or technically if no Empathy process is running), you actually have to launch Empathy twice from the application menu to see your buddy list:
- The first time you click on the Empathy starter in the menu, Empathy only connects to your specified accounts (the status icon next to your user name in the panel is changed).
- To see your buddy list, you have to click on the starter again.

To me, the expected behaviour would be that if I launch Empathy through
the application starter in the menu, both things should happen
simultaneously: The buddy list should pop up and my online status should
be changed. This should happen no matter if the Empathy process has been
running before or not.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 18 13:55:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2072): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2072): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2120): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2105): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:2104): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.2/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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[karmic] Empathy needs to be started twice to see the buddy list
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