Weird inconsistent behavior/lack of syncrhonization with empathy messaging integration

with gnome-shell 3.1.3 package, now things have gotten even worse!

I hear the sound played when I receive a message, but no longer get a blinking empathy tray icon, and get no shell message notification.

I do see the following in .xsession-errors though:

    JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Too few arguments to function Shell.ge
t_self_contact_features expected 4 got 3
    JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!! stack = '("Too few arguments to function Shell.get_self_contact_features expected 4 got 3")@gjs_throw:0
([object _private_Shell_TpClient],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_Account],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_Connection],[object Array],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_ChannelDispatchOperation],[object Array],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_ObserveChannelsContext])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/telepathyClient.js:107
([object _private_Shell_TpClient],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_Account],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_Connection],[object Array],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_ChannelDispatchOperation],[object Array],[object _private_TelepathyGLib_ObserveChannelsContext])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:110
'
    JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Too few arguments to function Shell.get_self_contact_features expected 4 got 3'

(empathy:16508): empathy-CRITICAL **: list_get_contact_blocking_capabilities_cb: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_UINT (value)' failed

latest issue should be fixable by upgrading to a more recent gjs, according to #gnome-shell irc channel:

<thejoe> hmm... seems like telepathyClient.js and shell-tp-client.[ch] disagree on # of args (.js is just passing lists, but .[ch] is expecting (list.length, list)). get_tp_contacts is also passing an extra null arg at the end?
<magcius> thejoe, gjs is magical :)
<thejoe> magcius, apparently not the ubuntu oneiric version though :(
<fmuellner> thejoe: no, that is correct - as js arrays already "contain" the length, it's not necessary to pass it separately (as for C)
<magcius> thejoe, so, recently, gjs broke backwards-compatibility
<fmuellner> gjs handles that (as of recently)

I've just uploaded gjs 1.29.0-1ubuntu1 to oneniric

still getting the same error with gjs 1.29.0; guess the "magic" is in unreleased git code?

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/commit/?id=f60d0a1f8cdb484486a43b1f596c4c1bc4930c07
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/commit/?id=0cd4538efcc0e39005c7921181c8e3687911255c
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gjs/commit/?id=c501e3df35c00e6011eb1548496262a8d4f5519f

and potentially others look related.

in the meantime, the attached patch to gnome-shell works (but will probably break on next gjs release)

Is the issue in empathy or gnome-shell and gjs are to be blamed?

Bug 816762 is caused by the same gjs API change.

I filed bug 822464 “Upgrade gjs to 1.29.16”, which is probably the cleanest way to deal with this problem.

original issue was mismatch between empathy (3.1.3) and gnome shell (3.0.2). Now the only issue is bad gjs/gnome-shell interaction as noted by Anders.

fixed with latest 1.29.16-0ubuntu2 gjs + 3.1.3-0ubuntu4

I have latest updates and still facing the issue.
When new message is received, I see message indicator. I select the message from there which opens chat window but there's no message there. If I select previous conversations, I can see messages there. This usually happens when first time message is received from particular contact in a day.