I can confirm seeing an identical issue, specifically implicating
Empathy on Ubuntu Linux 9.10 x86 connecting to OpenFire 3.6.4.
Further updates in this thread:
http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/196905
Excerpt from one of my posts:
In this case I was able to expend JVM memory
John Gills workaround of 'Deleting the existing jabber account and re-
creating worked, but only when I chose use existing account as opposed
to create new' worked for me, strangely enough.
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Empathy can't connect to a Jabber account
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361731
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