Lost all empathy accounts after update this morning (F13)

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 20 16:22:50 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Matthew Booth <mbooth at redhat.com> wrote:
> When I booted my machine this morning and started Empathy everything was
> fine. I did a rather big yum update this morning (including
> updates-testing), and I had reason to reboot my machine this afternoon.
> Empathy no longer has any of my accounts in it.
>
> I can't see anything obvious in yum.log which might have caused this,
> hence this email rather than a BZ or some negative karma. This is
> obviously a serious problem which I'd like to see others avoid if it
> hasn't already escaped updates-testing. The only suspects I had were
> updates to telepathy-butterfly and telepathy-gabble, but they don't seem
> to run any scripts. Don't see anything relating to gconf either...

Yeah, neither tp-gabble or tp-butterfly should be causing this.
tp-gabble's update only changed where tp-gabble looks for ssl
certificated on Fedora, and tp-butterfly was only a bugfix release. I
saw a bug report similar to this recently, but haven't been able to to
reproduce this.

Later,
/B


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