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Bug 621456 - empathy should not allow the creation of duplicate accounts at all
empathy should not allow the creation of duplicate accounts at all
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-13 15:26 UTC by Omer Akram
Modified: 2010-06-21 07:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Duplicate accounts (63.13 KB, image/png)
2010-06-13 15:30 UTC, Omer Akram 		Details

Description Omer Akram 2010-06-13 15:26:53 UTC 
The title says it all.
"Every now and then, empathy seems to duplicate my accounts (see screenshot).

I'm not sure how to reproduce this, but it has happened multiple times. I don't think it's related to an upgrade, since the only related package I recently upgraded was telepathy-butterfly. (And I think the problem showed itself before the upgrade to telepathy-butterly.)

More than willing to provide information, but I don't know where to start. I don't even know where my account details are stored."

I suggest empathy should not allow the creation of the same account at all.

originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/593174
Comment 1 Omer Akram 2010-06-13 15:30:32 UTC 
Created attachment 163513 [details]
Duplicate accounts
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-06-15 17:34:00 UTC 
Humm interesting. Accounts are saved in: ~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg

Can you check if they are duplicated in this file?
Comment 3 David Tombs 2010-06-16 00:00:43 UTC 
Yep, here's a snippet from accounts.cfg:

-----

[haze/aim/AnAngryMod1]
manager=haze
protocol=aim
DisplayName=aim (AnAngryMod)
param-account=AnAngryMod
param-port=5190
param-server=login.oscar.aol.com
Enabled=true
HasBeenOnline=true
Nickname=AnAngryMod
NormalizedName=anangrymod

[haze/aim/AnAngryMod0]
manager=haze
protocol=aim
DisplayName=AnAngryMod
param-account=AnAngryMod
Icon=im-aim
Enabled=true
HasBeenOnline=true
Nickname=AnAngryMod
NormalizedName=anangrymod

[haze/aim/AnAngryMod2]
manager=haze
protocol=aim
DisplayName=AnAngryMod
param-account=AnAngryMod
Icon=im-aim
Enabled=true
HasBeenOnline=true
Nickname=AnAngryMod
NormalizedName=anangrymod
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-06-16 12:31:43 UTC 
And you're sure you didn't add these accounts yourself? Any idea when they have been duplicated?
Comment 5 David Tombs 2010-06-16 12:55:12 UTC 
I am positive I didn't add them myself. I just started up empathy one day and god network errors from the duplicate accounts. I'll delete them for now and let you know when it happens again.
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-06-21 07:40:09 UTC 
Seems that's a MC issue: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28638