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.
Tags: empathy, facebook, msn, Network Error, telepathy-butterfly
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October 1, 2009 at 8:42 am |
Nice tip. Worked great.
November 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
Did NOT work. I’m still getting the same error.
Anybody else have any fixes or suggestions for this nuisance?
November 14, 2009 at 5:26 pm |
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.
November 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm |
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.
March 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm |
Perfect fix. Thanks!
June 13, 2010 at 10:58 pm |
I found that enpathy needed my facebook username and not my login email.
That fixed it for me. Easy and simple
June 14, 2011 at 8:37 am |
This worked for me! Thnx
July 5, 2010 at 9:38 am |
Nice, Thanks
July 6, 2010 at 4:56 pm |
thanks a lot. It works 😀
July 14, 2010 at 4:24 pm |
it works just tried the killall command and restart and now i can connect to msn!
July 28, 2010 at 7:06 am |
Worked a charm for fixing MSN. Cheers!
July 31, 2010 at 8:42 am |
Worked great, had connection problems with all accounts, only caveat was I’m running telepathy-haze, a simple ps -ef | grep telepathy gave me the info I needed.
September 2, 2010 at 11:40 am |
supi! works perfect
October 29, 2010 at 11:52 am |
Great!
November 29, 2010 at 12:06 am |
Worked great! Thanks a lot!
December 5, 2010 at 8:28 am |
didn’t work for me :S
December 6, 2010 at 2:31 am |
It worked. Thank you
January 17, 2011 at 10:15 am |
Please explain clearly. i don’t know how to do this.
February 14, 2011 at 7:43 pm |
Press ALT+F2, enter ‘killall telepathy-butterfly’ (without the quotes) and press ‘Run’.
January 18, 2011 at 4:14 am |
Thank you, that worked.
January 24, 2011 at 6:53 pm |
works great
thanx a lot!
July 26, 2011 at 5:49 pm |
username would be whats after facebook.com/yourusername
August 18, 2011 at 4:49 pm |
cheers, that worked a treat.
August 21, 2011 at 9:46 pm |
telepathy-butterfly: no process found
😦
October 1, 2011 at 11:21 am |
Tried it and it worked. Thank you.
October 23, 2011 at 12:39 pm |
I did it, now I get
“Disconnected. No reason specified.”
Progress I guess?
April 4, 2012 at 8:08 am |
Worked for me too 😀 … paste the login name that appears on the facebook url when you are using facebook online.
September 14, 2012 at 5:46 am |
Will this command work in Linux Mint 10?