[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#632277: Update: Confirmation of empathy being able to detect other running instances over an openvpn tap link

[P]

Further information : If I run empathy for the 1st time and tell it to 
use the Link-local XMPP feature, other people (on the VPN) show up 
immediately on my contact list and "avahi-browse -at" shows the "iChat 
service" for both me and other people running empathy on the VPN.
But, after that, if I quit the empathy program and run it again, its 
status shows as "Offline" and it never detects the other people on the 
local link who have been online since before. Also, "avahi-browse -at" 
does not show the "iChat service" for me. It does show "iChat service" 
for other people on the VPN.
Same result even if I restart my X session and then start empathy.

However, at this point, if I remove all my config files (with "rm -rf 
~/.[^.]*"), kill all running gconf/gnome session related programs (with 
"kill $(ps -A xu | grep $USER | grep -v bash | awk '{print $2}')") and 
start empathy again, it asks for account configuration to which I tell 
it to show nearby people only (link-local). As a result of this, empathy 
is able to show my link-local empathy users again.

This makes me suspect that when empathy is restarted (after the 
Link-local feature has been enabled in the accounts during a previous 
run), it is somehow unable to register with avahi-daemon for link local 
advertising which is causing all this trouble.

On Friday 09 August 2013 02:48 AM, P wrote:
> Works for me with a TAP VPN.
> I have the following versions of the relevant software.
>
> ii  openvpn                              
> 2.1.3-2+squeeze1                  virtual private network daemon
> ii  openvpn-blacklist                    
> 0.4                               list of blacklisted OpenVPN RSA 
> shared keys
> ii  empathy                              
> 2.30.3-1                          GNOME multi-protocol chat and call 
> client
> ii  empathy-common                       
> 2.30.3-1                          GNOME multi-protocol chat and call 
> client (common files)
> ii  nautilus-sendto-empathy              
> 2.30.3-1                          GNOME multi-protocol chat and call 
> client (nautilus-sendto plugin)
> ii  telepathy-salut                      
> 0.3.12-1                          Link-local XMPP connection manager 
> for the Telepathy framework
>