I can confirm this bug. In my case I have the VPN down through which most accounts I access (Facebook, gtalk, icq). When empathy starts it immediately eats up 100% CPU (telepathy-gabble) and continues to do so even if I set it to offline. An strace on the telepathy-gabble contains polls and empty receives only:
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 (Timeout) recvfrom(11, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(10, "", 6, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1085167 Title: telepathy-gabble using 100% cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-gabble/+bug/1085167/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs