Lost all empathy accounts after update this morning (F13)

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 20 17:07:43 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 16:16 +0100, Matthew Booth 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...
> 
> Here's yum.log from this morning. Can anybody offer any guesses?

A handy alternative to looking at the yum.log:

yum history list

then you can see the transactions by date.

then:

yum history info <transaction id> 

to get a lot of info on what changed.

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory

for more info.

-sv





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