Empathy causes Xorg lockup when opening menus

Binary package hint: empathy

Empathy causes Xorg to ignore the mouse and keyboard under some bizarre circumstances. Here's how to reproduce it:

1. Start an IM conversation (I was using Google Talk and AIM both times this happened)
2. Open any menu in a conversation window.
3. Upon receiving a new message in that window, Xorg will lose control of keyboard and mouse.

Keyboard and mouse become unresponsive, but the Empathy session and other apps still return information. You can still use Ctrl+Alt+F1 or likewise to get out to a tty and restart Xorg.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 10 18:22:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686