empathy "Facebook account requires authorization" problem

Question

I am trying to connect to my Facebook account from Empathy on Ubuntu 13.04.

When setting up the account in Empathy everything looks OK, but then Empathy just shows the message:

Facebook account requires authorization

According to bug #1170832, this is due to a problem in the telepathy-gabble package which has been fixed in version 0.18.1.

However, I manually installed telepathy-gabble_0.18.1-1_amd64.deb from Launchpad and the problem persists. Has anyone else had any luck with this?

Solution

The telepathy-gabble 0.18.1 package in Ubuntu actually contained a work-around for the problem, not a proper solution. Quoting from the ChangeLog:

telepathy-gabble (0.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream stable release
    - work around Facebook server behaviour change so we don't consider its
      service discovery response to be spoofed (Closes: #721883)

 -- Simon McVittie  Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:05:13 +0100

Apparently, this work-around does not work, and in fact the status of the bug has been reverted from Fix Released to Confirmed.

For the proper fix I'm sorry you will have to wait for the upstream bug to be fixed (unless someone proposes an another work-around in the meantime).

Comments

[jpic]

Yeah I tried that already, did it work for you ?

[Kaos]

Didn't work for me