I just confirmed that this bug was caused by the homedir being a symlink which is not handled correctly by apparmor.
Disabling apparmor for telepathy as explained above works, but a better solution is to add the real path of the home directories to the line starting with @{HOME} in /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home, e.g. if your real home directories reside in /exports/home/ change @{HOME}=@{HOMEDIRS}/*/ /root/ to @{HOME}=@{HOMEDIRS}/*/ /root/ /exports/home/*/ Hopefully this helps other people with the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864764 Title: empath forgets accounts 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/864764/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs