[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#548273: Bug#548273: empathy: Non-XMPP services don't appear.

[Philipp Weis]

On 2009-09-25 12:19, Jonny Lamb <jonny at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 548273 + moreinfo
> kthxbye
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 23:07:46 -0400, Philipp Weis wrote:
> > I just installed empathy to play around a bit with it. I also
> > installed telepathy-butterfly, telepathy-haze and telepathy-idle. But
> > when I add an account, only XMPP and Google Talk show up as available
> > protocols.
> 
> If you restart your bus daemon or send it the HUP signal (kill -HUP
> $pid) then does it then work?
> 
> I think this is a bug in dbus where its inotify helper doesn't work
> properly, leading to it not noticing new activatable services.

Thanks for the quick reply. I happened to reboot my machine, and now
all the services are there, so your dbus explanation seems plausible,
but I couldn't find a related bug report there.

Philipp


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