empathy can't connect to facebook chat

Question

I am using ubuntu 12.10, and when I try to connect to my Facebook account through Empathy, it gets disconnected and says this account is already connected to the server.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Here is what I did and it worked perfectly so maybe it would work for you. I just deleted the account and added it again. The Ubuntu did the rest automatically for me (asked for email / login and password). Now it is working properly.

Answer 2

Other people have also been having this issue on other chat clients, such as pidgin and trillian. I think facebook may have changed something, although some people seem to have it back up.
Here's some posts that are related, hopefully this helps http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showthread.php?p=854491

Answer 3

Try manually conecting to Facebook chat, as it's really a jabber server. Set up a new XMPP/Jabber account. Use this settings:

• User Name: Your Facebook username (your url, such as http://www.facebook.com/my.username.
• Domain: chat.facebook.com
• Jabber identifier: your.username@chat.facebook.com
• Password: Your facebook passsword.
• Server: chat.facebook.com
• Port: 5222
• Use SSL/TLS: Yes

If asked, use plain text as autentication.

Hope it helps you! For more information, check Facebook's chat page.