To fix it for me I deleted ~/.config/Empathy/chatrooms.xml, restarted Empathy, and joined the rooms again. They were saved as favourites, and Empathy now connects automatically to those rooms I have marked as "Auto-Connect".
In other words this seems to be some kind of distro upgrade bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071934 Title: "Favourite Rooms" feature doesn't work in 12.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1071934/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
