Lost IM messages

[Grenage]

Greetings,

A version or two ago I discovered that I was sporadically losing messages when using Pidgin and Empathy. This, coupled with a few other niggles made me install Fedora; that was fine, until my HD failed.

I decided to try 11.10 on a new drive, but I notice that the same thing is happening. It's a completely fresh install, and I can see no pattern. If a chat window is open, I will always get the messages sent; if not, there's a good chance it will never reach me. I am assuming that this is a network-based issue, but it only happens on Ubuntu.

I can't be the only one experiencing this (I've seen old issues that were similar), so does anyone have some suggestions?

[Grenage]

For the time being it is working, although I've gutted the system of telepathy components. I'll mark this as solved in the unlikely event that it continues to work.

[Grenage]

That seems to have fixed it; so I'm marking this as solved.