first you have to add an account for any IM protocol and when empathy is functioning click on edit>account and then you can create irc account. in simple words you should have atleast on account set before creating an IRC account. its a known bug
-- No potion to connect to irc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
