** Description changed: Ubuntu always starts up with my chat statuses greyed out as Offline in the notification area and you cannot change your status. Running Chat Accounts from the notification area and closing it again enables you to select Available. Alternatively running Chat from the notification area or Empathy from the menu enables you to select Available. This is on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.04. It seems that the reason for this is that Empathy is actually not - running. I tried adding to start-up applications, but whilst this solved - the problem, I started having problems with the desktop not loading from - time to time, forcing me to kill X and start again. - - I believe that, once the user has set up his chat accounts, there should - be a workflow that adds an Empathy daemon to the Start-up Applications. + running. I believe that, once the user has set up his chat accounts, + there should be a workflow that adds Empathy to the Start-up + Applications. Gwibber is a similar application in many ways, and it suffers no such - problems. + problem. The following bug seems to contain some discussion of this issue, but is reporting a slightly different problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/322314 I have read other reports of requiring dconf, but this was a fresh install of 11.04 and libdconf0 0.7.3-ubuntu1 seems to be already installed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Jul 8 21:24:03 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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