I have the same problem, but found a solution, that worked for me at least: I noticed, that after installing the package "sound-theme-freedesktop" and setting the sound theme to default in the audio properties, empathy made sounds. So I decided to look at the files and found the following: There is a file named "message.oga" in the freedesktop-sound-theme, but there's no "message.ogg" in ubuntu's sound theme. So I just created one and empathy now makes works like I'd expect.
In other words: /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/message.ogg is missing and needed by empathy to make a sound for incoming and outgoing messages. Hope that helps other people as well. -- [lucid] empathy does not make any sounds when set to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/559532 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
