I originally posted this on bugs.launchpad.com who suggested that this bug posting would be more appropriate. I am pasting exactly as it was over there. If there is any more information I can provide: Please let me know.


Ubuntu 9.10
empathy:
  Installed: 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
 *** 2.28.1-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
This is a fairly clean install, less than a week old with minimal additional packages added (so far)

Description:

3) When clearing chat the expected function is for the chat history to be removed and not restored when a new chat to that person is started. Second: It isn't supposed to crash :P

When pasting links Empathy will occasionally doublepost and then crash. The same issue can be seen after a chat window has been open for awhile-such as an hour+ then an attempt to clear the chat history followed by more typing-will occasionally crash Empathy. Second to this, on clears and reopens the chat window has the 'cleared' chat still in place and commonly shows the last message twice.

When intentionally trying: I have replicated the issue with limited success. Usually by a combination of clearing text then closing the chat and reopening chat to the same person.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 4 14:40:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686