To fix it for me I deleted ~/.config/Empathy/chatrooms.xml, restarted Empathy, and joined the rooms again. They were saved as favourites, and Empathy now connects automatically to those rooms I have marked as "Auto-Connect".
In other words this seems to be some kind of distro upgrade bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071934 Title: "Favourite Rooms" feature doesn't work in 12.10 Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have a few #ubuntu-* rooms selected as favourites on freenode, but those marked to be autostarted do not autostart after I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10. Also, they are not displayed in the "Manage Favourite Rooms" window for my freenode account (but are shown if I select "All accounts"...). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: empathy 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Oct 27 00:00:15 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-11 (15 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-25 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1071934/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
