Description of problem: After one of the recent rounds of updates, I no longer get notifications for private IRC messages. I have empathy running, and I hear the beep alerting me to a message, but the shell notification area doesn't have a chat icon to click on. I'm not sure whether the problem is with empathy or the GNOME shell. I do get notifications from other applications. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): empathy-3.6.0.1-1.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-mission-control-5.14.0-1.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-farstream-0.4.0-3.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-gabble-0.16.3-1.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-filesystem-0.0.2-4.fc18.noarch telepathy-haze-0.6.0-2.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-salut-0.8.0-2.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-logger-0.4.0-4.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-idle-0.1.12-2.fc18.x86_64 telepathy-glib-0.20.0-1.fc18.x86_64 gnome-settings-daemon-3.6.0-4.fc18.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.6.0-1.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Just started happening today. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Connect to an IRC server that requires a NickServ password. 2.Wait for the beep indicating a message from NickServ. 3.Try to find that conversation window. Actual results: No icon to click on in notification area. No conversation window. No conversation tab.
This happens sporadically and seems to be fixed once I restart the shell (Alt-F2 'r' Enter)... so, changing component.
I would like to confirm this bug. It started after upgrade to Fedora 18 (Fedora 17 did not have this bug). Steps to reproduce with my machine: 1. Restart the computer. 2. Log in. 3. Start Empathy, set status to "Online" and ensure that notification displaying is turned on in the top-right system menu 4. No notifications of incoming messages are displayed 5. Alt-F2, restart 6. Notifications are displayed again. The software versions which I use: empathy.x86_64 3.6.3-1.fc18 gnome-settings-daemon.x86_64 3.6.4-2.fc18 gnome-shell.x86_64 3.6.2-6.fc18 telepathy-farstream.x86_64 0.6.0-1.fc18 telepathy-filesystem.noarch 0.0.2-4.fc18 telepathy-gabble.x86_64 0.16.4-2.fc18 telepathy-glib.x86_64 0.20.1-1.fc18 telepathy-haze.x86_64 0.6.0-2.fc18 telepathy-idle.x86_64 0.1.13-1.fc18 telepathy-logger.x86_64 0.6.0-3.fc18 telepathy-mission-control.x86_64 1:5.14.0-1.fc18 telepathy-rakia.x86_64 0.7.4-2.fc18 telepathy-salut.x86_64 0.8.1-1.fc18 Regards, Adam Buraczewski
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I don't think I've seen that any more with Fedora 20, so we can probably let this get closed automatically when Fedora 18 is EOL.
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