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Empathy Reports Network Error When Connecting to MSN

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Issue

telepathy-butterfly

Affects

  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 10.10

Cause

A bug is present in the telepathy-butterfly package.

Resolution

An update is pending approval and will be available for both Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. Informal patches are available, however, I prefer to stick to the mainline distribution as much as possible to avoid introducing tightly coupled dependencies.

Remove telepathy-butterfly and its dependencies.

sudo killall telepathy-butterfly
sudo dpkg --purge telepathy-butterfly
sudo apt-get install telepathy-haze

Reconfigure your MSN connections and attempt to activate them. You should experience no additional issues.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-butterfly/+bug/513346”