Here is my life: - I have Empathy 2.34 installed on my system. In 2.34 empathy-chat hasn't been splitted yet, so the 'Empathy' process is still a text handler. As a result, /usr/share/telepathy/clients/Empathy.client claims that Telepathy.Client.Empathy is a text handler, which is true. - But as I like to live on the bleeding edge, I usually run empathy master. So I start manually empathy and empathy-chat. In master there is no Telepathy.Client.Empathy any more, as text channels are now handled by Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat. - When I receive a new incoming text channel, MC usually try to dispatch it to Telepathy.Client.Empathy first, which fails because I already have another empathy running and then it starts dispatching to Empathy.Chat I realise that my situation is a bit of a corner case, but I think MC should prefer Client.Empathy.Chat as it's a as good handler as Client.Empathy and this one is already running while Client.Empathy is not. Here is the MC logs when receiving such channel: mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531058: _mcd_mission_set_parent: child = 0x133e980, parent = 0x13a1100 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531367: _mcd_dispatcher_take_channels: unrequested channel 0x133e980 (only): /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/gabble/jabber/cassidy_40jabber_2ebelnet_2ebe_2fX200s/ImChannel13 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531532: _mcd_dispatcher_take_channels: possible handlers found, dispatching mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531655: _mcd_channel_set_status: 0x133e980, 3 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531759: _mcd_dispatcher_enter_state_machine: CTXREF11 on 0x1496740 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.531857: _mcd_dispatcher_enter_state_machine: new dispatcher context 0x1496740 for unrequested channel 0x133e980 (only): /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Connection/gabble/jabber/cassidy_40jabber_2ebelnet_2ebe_2fX200s/ImChannel13 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532004: mcd_dispatch_operation_constructor: do26/0x13a2bd0: needs_approval=T mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532161: _mcd_plugin_dispatch_operation_init: 0x1473090 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532267: _mcd_plugin_dispatch_operation_new: 0x1473090 (for 0x13a2bd0) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532378: _mcd_dispatcher_enter_state_machine: entering state machine for context 0x1496740 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532618: mcd_dispatcher_context_ref: CTXREF01 on 0x1496740 (ref = 1) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532718: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_clients: do26 0x13a2bd0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532814: _mcd_dispatch_operation_handlers_can_bypass_observers: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy has BypassObservers=F mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.532902: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_clients: Running observers mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.533132: _mcd_dispatch_operation_inc_observers_pending: 0 -> 1 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.533235: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_observers: calling ObserveChannels on org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Logger for CDO 0x13a2bd0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.533942: _mcd_dispatch_operation_inc_observers_pending: 1 -> 2 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.534048: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_observers: calling ObserveChannels on org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.GnomeShell._3a1_2e2316.n0 for CDO 0x13a2bd0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.534646: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_clients: All necessary observers invoked mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.534740: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_clients: Checking finished/locks mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.534840: _mcd_dispatch_operation_handlers_can_bypass_approval: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy has BypassApproval=F mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.534934: mcd_dispatcher_context_unref: CTXREF01 on 0x1496740 (ref = 2) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535027: mcd_dispatcher_context_unref: CTXREF11 on 0x1496740 (ref = 1) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535116: mcd_dispatcher_context_unref: freeing the context 0x1496740 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535233: _mcd_dispatch_operation_inc_ado_pending: 0 -> 1 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535352: mcd_dbus_get_interfaces: called mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535454: get_connection: called for do26 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535553: get_possible_handlers: called for do26 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535785: _mcd_dispatch_operation_run_approvers: Calling AddDispatchOperation on approver org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.EventManager for CDO /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/DispatchOperation/do26 @ 0x13a2bd0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.535886: _mcd_dispatch_operation_inc_ado_pending: 1 -> 2 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.539096: _mcd_dispatch_operation_dec_ado_pending: 2 -> 1 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.545000: on_channel_ready: channel 0x133e980 is ready mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.556262: dbusprop_get_all: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ChannelDispatchOperation mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.556322: mcd_dbus_get_interfaces: called mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.556370: get_connection: called for do26 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.556418: get_channels: called for do26 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.556545: get_possible_handlers: called for do26 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.564663: add_dispatch_operation_cb: Approver /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Client/Empathy/EventManager accepted AddDispatchOperation /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/DispatchOperation/do26 (0x13a2bd0) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.564726: _mcd_dispatch_operation_dec_ado_pending: 1 -> 0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.579492: observe_channels_cb: success from /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Client/GnomeShell/_3a1_2e2316/n0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.579555: _mcd_dispatch_operation_dec_observers_pending: 2 -> 1 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.609961: observe_channels_cb: success from /org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Client/Logger mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.610027: _mcd_dispatch_operation_dec_observers_pending: 1 -> 0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.610069: _mcd_plugin_dispatch_operation_observers_finished: 0x1473090 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:08.610111: _mcd_dispatch_operation_check_client_locks: waiting for approval mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.909857: dispatch_operation_handle_with_time: do26/0x13a2bd0 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.909924: _mcd_dispatch_operation_check_client_locks: trying next handler mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.909969: _mcd_dispatch_operation_try_next_handler: Possible handler: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy (still exists: Y, already failed: N) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.910022: _mcd_client_proxy_handle_channels: calling HandleChannels on org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.910130: _mcd_channel_set_status: 0x133e980, 4 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.992763: dbusprop_get_all: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.992820: get_valid_accounts: called mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.992893: get_invalid_accounts: called mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:15.992952: mcd_dbus_get_interfaces: called mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928154: _mcd_dispatch_operation_handle_channels_cb: error: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928328: _mcd_dispatch_operation_check_client_locks: trying next handler mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928433: _mcd_dispatch_operation_try_next_handler: Possible handler: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy (still exists: Y, already failed: Y) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928534: _mcd_dispatch_operation_try_next_handler: Possible handler: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat (still exists: Y, already failed: N) mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928647: _mcd_client_proxy_handle_channels: calling HandleChannels on org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.928889: _mcd_channel_set_status: 0x133e980, 4 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946080: _mcd_channel_set_status: 0x133e980, 5 mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946202: _mcd_dispatch_operation_finish: Result: Channel successfully handled by org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946247: _mcd_dispatch_operation_finish: successful HandleWith, channel went to org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946296: _mcd_dispatch_operation_finish: do26/0x13a2bd0 has finished mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946337: mcd_dispatch_operation_actually_finish: do26/0x13a2bd0: finished mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946397: _mcd_dispatch_operation_check_client_locks: waiting for HandleChannels to return mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946438: _mcd_dispatch_operation_check_client_locks: already finished (or finishing): Channel successfully handled by org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Empathy.Chat mcd-DEBUG: 13/04/2011 09:45:40.946481: plugin_do_finalize: 0x1473090
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21178 ***
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