Michael can you please try the development release of empathy from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~telepathy/+archive/ppa and test if you still face this issue.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- Empathy sometimes fails to connect to IRC servers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs