[Bug 843546] [NEW] mission-control unable to load account information through symlinks

[Chris Irwin]

Public bug reported:

If ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg is a symlink (either itself
or any component of that path) empathy will prompt for account details
on every run, showing no accounts registered. Manually adding accounts
causes empathy to function for the remainder of the session. When
logging out & in again, empathy shows no accounts and prompts to add
some.

I previously used empathy on Ubuntu 11.04 without issue with ~/.mission-
control being a symlink to another directory (on the same filesystem, so
it is always available).

mission-control probably shouldn't care if a file or directory is a
symlink or not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: telepathy-mission-control-5 1:5.9.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep  7 00:38:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110827)
SourcePackage: telepathy-mission-control-5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: telepathy-mission-control-5 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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