Ubuntu
empathy package

Empathy does not return from idle to online status when user returns from being away

Bug #865766 reported by Juha Siltala
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This bug affects 11 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Invalid
Medium
GNOME Shell
Fix Released
Medium
empathy (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

As far as I know, Empathy's auto-away status is supposed to work like this: when I leave my computer, GNOME detects the idle time of 10 minutes (or whatever), blanks the screen, and puts Empathy in "away" status. In previous versions, Empathy would come back to "available" status when I became active again. This does not happen anymore. Empathy goes "away" properly at idle time, but never goes back to "available" until I set the status manually.

This is up-to date Oneiric, running gnome-shell.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: empathy 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 4 01:24:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Juha Siltala (topyli) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in empathy:
status: New → Invalid
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Matthew Gregg (mcg) wrote :

Invalid?

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dfalk (dfalk) wrote :

It's marked as invalid because the upstream bug they linked this to was a duplicate of another bug already entered (hence invalid). Upstream bug is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661485

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Michael Gratton (mjog) wrote :

Upstream considers this to be a gnome-shell problem, since that is responsible for managing idle presence in Gnome 3.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-shell:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-shell:
status: New → Fix Released
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dfalk (dfalk) wrote :

So the fix is released. Great. Does this mean it will show up in update-manager, or does this mean that we have to wait for Pangolin to get this fix?

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

dfalk, this update will be released for Ubuntu 11.10 users also.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

EOL reached for that serie https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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