Just had this problem with empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1 on up-to-date karmic, x64. Empathy was set to offline mode overnight, I got to work in the morning and set it to online. It logged into my Google Talk account, found status information for my contacts, but then a contact tried to message me, and I got this error, and empathy crashed and restarted. Seems to have been directly triggered by the IM from my friend, although not sure what internal state caused that to happen.
Just had this problem with empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1 on up-to-date karmic, x64. Empathy was set to offline mode overnight, I got to work in the morning and set it to online. It logged into my Google Talk account, found status information for my contacts, but then a contact tried to message me, and I got this error, and empathy crashed and restarted. Seems to have been directly triggered by the IM from my friend, although not sure what internal state caused that to happen.