not all the time but it happens to me too and its not a bug of empathy. the simple solution for me was sudo pkill mission and everything came back to normal
** Package changed: empathy (Ubuntu) => telepathy-mission-control-5 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: telepathy-mission-control-5 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- MSN offline, but Empathy doesn't notice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs