[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#955463: empathy: Can't add account

Wed Apr 1 05:39:00 BST 2020

Package: empathy
Version: 3.25.90+really3.12.14-2
Severity: normal

1. Press Account settings button.
2. Press + button.
3. Select Google Talk account, enter credentials, and press Add button.
4. Nothing happens. Really, absolutely nothing. I'd expect my Google
   Talk account to be added and my Hangout buds to be visible and that I'd
   be able to chat with them.
5. However, I found the following that appeared in /var/log/syslog every
   time I pressed the Add button:

Mar 31 21:27:55 olgas mission-control[4177]: g_object_new_is_valid_property: object class 'McdAccount' has no property named 'connectivity-monitor'
Mar 31 21:27:55 olgas mission-control[4177]: object McdAccount 0x562f321bf460 finalized while still in-construction
Mar 31 21:27:55 olgas mission-control[4177]: Custom constructor for class McdAccount returned NULL (which is invalid). Please use GInitable instead.

Looks like a patch is available at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-mission-control/commit/d8dab08fe8db137c6bbd8bbdc3d9b01d98c48910.

Maybe this needs to be passed on to libmission-control-plugins0, but as
long as empathy is fixed...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages empathy depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.16-2
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.16-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.36.0-1
ii  empathy-common                                3.25.90+really3.12.14-2
ii  geoclue-2.0                                   2.5.6-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     3.36.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio                       1.16.2-3
ii  libc6                                         2.30-2
ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-4
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                            0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                                  0.30-7
ii  libchamplain-0.12-0                           0.12.20-1
ii  libchamplain-gtk-0.12-0                       0.12.20-1
ii  libcheese-gtk25                               3.34.0-1+b1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                              1.26.4+dfsg-1
ii  libclutter-gst-3.0-0                          3.0.27-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0                          1.8.4-4
ii  libcogl-path20                                1.22.6-1
ii  libcogl20                                     1.22.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                              0.110-5
ii  libenchant-2-2                                2.2.8-1
ii  libfarstream-0.2-5                            0.2.8-5
ii  libfolks-telepathy25                          0.13.2-1
ii  libfolks25                                    0.13.2-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1                               3.36.0-2
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                                 3.36.0-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.40.0+dfsg-3
ii  libgee-0.8-2                                  0.20.3-1
ii  libgeocode-glib0                              3.26.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.64.1-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                                 3.36.0-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0                1.16.2-4
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                             1.16.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.14-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                                233-1
ii  libmission-control-plugins0                   1:5.16.5-1
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.9-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.42.4-8
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                       13.0-5
ii  libpulse0                                     13.0-5
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.20.2-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                  2.70.0-1
ii  libtelepathy-farstream3                       0.6.2-1+b2
ii  libtelepathy-glib0                            0.24.1-2+b1
ii  libtelepathy-logger3                          0.8.2-4
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37                          2.28.0-2
ii  libx11-6                                      2:1.6.9-2
ii  libxml2                                       2.9.10+dfsg-4
ii  telepathy-logger                              0.8.2-4
ii  telepathy-mission-control-5                   1:5.16.5-1

Versions of packages empathy recommends:
ii  gnome-contacts           3.36-1
ii  gvfs-backends            1.44.0-1
ii  sound-theme-freedesktop  0.8-2
ii  telepathy-gabble         0.18.4-1+b1
ii  telepathy-haze           0.8.0-2.1
ii  telepathy-salut          0.8.1-5.1

Versions of packages empathy suggests:
ii  telepathy-idle  0.2.0-2+b1
ii  vino            3.22.0-6

Versions of packages empathy is related to:
ii  telepathy-gabble [telepathy-connection-manager]  0.18.4-1+b1
ii  telepathy-haze [telepathy-connection-manager]    0.8.0-2.1
ii  telepathy-idle [telepathy-connection-manager]    0.2.0-2+b1
ii  telepathy-rakia [telepathy-connection-manager]   0.8.0-3+b1
ii  telepathy-salut [telepathy-connection-manager]   0.8.1-5.1

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