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Empathy gives “Network Error”

By aslakjohansen

Recently empathy has been giving randomish errors for certain protocols, mostly MSN and Facebook. The message is “Network Error“.

This forum thread hints a solution: Simply run “killall telepathy-butterfly” and restart empathy.

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4 Responses to “Empathy gives “Network Error””

  1. Paul Howard Says:
    October 1, 2009 at 8:42 am | Reply

    Nice tip. Worked great.

  2. Yousaf M. Shaikh Says:
    November 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm | Reply

    Did NOT work. I’m still getting the same error.

    Anybody else have any fixes or suggestions for this nuisance?

  3. Ben Says:
    November 14, 2009 at 5:26 pm | Reply

    This isn’t a new problem for me, but it seems to happen a great deal lately. Sometimes with all accounts, sometimes mostly with msn, and sometimes with gmail – in fact my gmail has been off for the last 5 days straight (before that I was connected, and would get an IM everytime I posted a blip to Google Wave…

    This is just toooooo damned annoying – and it seems the solutions aren’t too concrete. IM seems to be something that needs fine tuning to keep working – and that seems to be tuned for Windows or Mac environments.

  4. Ben Says:
    November 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm | Reply

    Something JUST worked….

    I was running Empathy, and killing stuff didn’t work.

    Then I fired up aMSN and logged into MSN there.

    Then I fired up Pidgin… and had an ‘add MSN contact’ from aMSN – which I accepted.

    Then I told pidgin to re-enable the MSN account (which failed to login, because it was on aMSN)

    Then I killed aMSN – and Pidgin put ALL the lights on. XMPP and Yahoo and MSN.

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