Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: empathy
This doesn't happen 100% of the time, and reproducing it seems to
require chatting with a Google Talk contact that is actually online. I
tried to reproduce with a contact that's offline but couldn't, and I'm
low on contacts that are happy to do Empathy debugging with me. Anyway,
steps to reproduce:
- Start a chat with a contact on Google Talk.
- After some messages are exchanged, click on the chat window's Contact menu.
- The Contact menu only draws "partially", i.e. only its rectangle is
drawn/filled with the background color.
- Empathy seems to have stolen keyboard and input focus desktop-wide: Alt-Tab,
mouse clicks do nothing, including on other visible windows unrelated to
Empathy.
Workaround:
- Switch to text console Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in.
- Find the empathy process and kill it with kill -9.
- Switch back to Gnome desktop Alt-F7.
- Empathy can now be restarted and will behave "normally" unless the steps
above are followed again.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 9 16:54:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Contact menu in chat window doesn't draw, steals input, requires kill -9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447665
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