Also happens with telepathy-haze (Yahoo). After killing telepathy-haze, the Yahoo account works again.
Note before killing telepathy-haze.. changing the username works to connect to another YM account, but when I changed the username back to the problematic username, it gives "Disconnected - Network Error" again immediately (without any sign of progress of actually trying to connect to the network). $ aptitude show empathy telepathy-haze Package: empathy State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.32.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 2.458k Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcanberra-gtk0 (>= 0.4), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libdbusmenu-glib1 (>= 0.3.12), libebook1.2-9 (>= 2.30.3), libedataserver1.2-13 (>= 2.30.3), libenchant1c2a (>= 1.6), libfolks-telepathy0 (>= 0.1.9), libfolks0 (>= 0.1.15), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.31.1), libgcr0 (>= 2.26.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.21.6), libgee2 (>= 0.5.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.25.16), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.26.0), libgnutls26 (>= 2.7.14-0), libgp11-0 (>= 2.24), libgstfarsight0.10-0 (>= 0.0.1), libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.0), libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.21.8), libindicate-gtk2 (>= 0.2.2), libindicate4 (>= 0.3.3), liblaunchpad-integration1 (>= 0.1.17), libnm-glib2 (>= 0.8~a~git.20090826t185111.79489be), libnotify1 (>= 0.5.0), libnotify1-gtk2.10, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.4.0), libtasn1-3 (>= 1.6-0), libtelepathy-farsight0 (>= 0.0.6), libtelepathy-glib0 (>= 0.11.15), libtelepathy-logger1 (>= 0.1.2), libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libwebkit-1.0-2 (>= 1.1.15), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), empathy-common (= 2.32.1-0ubuntu1), telepathy-mission-control-5, gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.30.0), dbus-x11, telepathy-logger Recommends: telepathy-gabble, telepathy-salut, libdconf0, gvfs-backends, telepathy-haze, telepathy-butterfly, nautilus-sendto-empathy Suggests: telepathy-idle, vino Breaks: telepathy-butterfly (< 0.5.10) Replaces: libempathy-gtk-common Description: GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, MSN, Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. This package contains the Empathy IM application and account manager. Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy Package: telepathy-haze State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.4.0-1ubuntu0.1 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 229k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libpurple0 (>= 1:2.7.0), libtelepathy-glib0 (>= 0.11.13) Provides: telepathy-connection-manager Description: A telepathy connection manager that use libpurple Haze is a telepathy connection manager based on libpurple. This allow telepathy based application to connect all protocols supported by libpurple (pidgin). ** Also affects: telepathy-haze Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: telepathy-haze (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - empathy reports network error and requires killing telepathy-butterfly + empathy reports network error and requires killing telepathy-butterfly / telepathy-haze -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509721 Title: empathy reports network error and requires killing telepathy-butterfly / telepathy-haze -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs