There was a bug in telepathy-indicator which was fixed in version 0.3.0-0ubuntu3 which is in quantal-proposed. Would you be able to enable that repository and see if installing that fixes your issue. You will need to restart your desktop session for the changes to take effect I believe.
** Also affects: telepathy-indicator (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid ** Changed in: telepathy-indicator (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: telepathy-indicator (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1065176 Title: first message not showing in gnome message bar To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1065176/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs