Bug 40740 - Accounts are read from and written to different places
Summary: Accounts are read from and written to different places
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: Telepathy
Classification: Unclassified
Component: mission-control (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Telepathy bugs list
QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list
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Reported: 2011-09-09 09:40 UTC by Mantas Mikulėnas
Modified: 2011-09-13 02:59 UTC (History)
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Description Mantas Mikulėnas 2011-09-09 09:40:33 UTC 
In the GNOME 3.1 beta, adding new accounts via 'empathy-accounts' causes them to be stored in "~/.local/share/telepathy/mission-control/accounts-goa.cfg". However, upon login, accounts are being read from "~/.mission-control/accounts/accounts.cfg". This means all newly added accounts disappear.

Arch Linux, gnome-unstable:
- empathy 3.1.91-1
- gnome-online-accounts 3.1.90-1
- gnome-shell 3.1.91-1
- telepathy-mission-control 5.9.2-1
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-12 06:57:38 UTC 
Humm accounts-goa.cfg is only supposed to be used with accounts created using GNOME online accounts, not empathy-accounts. Are you sure you created this account using empathy and not GOA in the control center?
Comment 2 Mantas Mikulėnas 2011-09-12 10:21:55 UTC 
Quite sure. The only GOA account I have is for Google Talk (as Google is the only provider packaged by Arch). The rest -- "People nearby", Facebook XMPP, MSN Messenger -- I added using the `empathy-accounts` program. But all of them are in accounts-goa.cfg.
Comment 3 Mantas Mikulėnas 2011-09-12 10:23:59 UTC 
My test:
01. Log out from GNOME.
02. Log in to console.
03. Ensure telepathy is not running, remove both configs
04. Log in to GNOME.
05. Run `empathy-accounts`, add a few accounts (Facebook, "Nearby", MSN)
    - "accounts.cfg" is empty, aside from the "# Telepathy accounts" comment.
    - "accounts-goa.cfg" has both my GOA account and everything I added via Empathy.
06. Log out from GNOME, then back in again.
07. Run `empathy-accounts` and check.
    - The accounts I added in step #05 remain in "accounts-goa.cfg", yet they are ignored by Empathy. Only the GOA account is listed by `empathy-accounts`.
08. Log out from GNOME.
09. Manually move a single account from "accounts-goa.cfg" to "accounts.cfg" using a text editor.
10. Log in to GNOME.
11. Run `empathy-accounts` and check.
    - The manually-moved account now appears in Empathy. The ones in "accounts-goa.cfg" are still ignored.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-13 02:59:21 UTC 
I managed to reproduce this issue, thanks for your very detailled info.

That's a bug in Empathy's GOA MC plugin so I forwarded this bug to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658895

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