Comment 3 for bug 524221

I did not mean to imply that it was not working in Pidgin, only that I saw an error in Pidgin about too many connect attempts when I switched to that after failing to connect with Empathy. Pidgin is working properly.

empathy:
  Installed: 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.29.90-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     2.29.90-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
 *** 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Maybe there is a problem with the upgrade process? I show 2.28.1.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10 system and it is working properly, while on my Alpha 10.4 upgrade it is not.