Funny, it's 2015 and I'm getting this old bug in Empathy 3.12.9. I successfully connected to the IRC server but the channel join option is grayed out.
-- 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/506611 Title: empathy irc room option is greyed out Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Invalid Status in empathy package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Empathy is signed into nickserv successfully however it is not allowing room to be ungreyed. Fortunately /join now works so you can connect in that manner. However this is not obvious at all. The accounts windows says that the irc account is off line even though I can interact with it. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 12 20:38:04 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100112.1) Package: empathy 2.29.4-1ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic SourcePackage: empathy Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/506611/+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