I have the same problem too. Something I haven't seen mentioned is that my Google contacts see me as being online and can initiate a chat. They still do not appear in the contact list when a chat is started.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676828 Title: Contacts does not show up in empathy contact list Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy This mostly happens when empathy starts on ubuntu startup, when opening empathy it shows no contacts in a contact list. It does not show anything with 'Show offline contacts'. Restarting empathy is the only solution that works (sometimes even that doesn't work). Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Package: empathy Installed: 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.0.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 18 11:02:23 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy LocalLibraries: /usr/local/lib/libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0.3.1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/676828/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp