I keep having this problem as well and just fired up empathy-debugger. I then filtered it only to show Empathy.Auth messages and it looks like there is a timeout to the server. I have attached this log (with only the auth messages in it). If anything else is required please let me know.
empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.117672: perform_verification: Performing verification empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.117738: debug_certificate_chain: Certificate chain: length 4 status anchored empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.117889: debug_certificate: Certificate: CN=*.gateway.messenger.live.com empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.118490: debug_certificate: Certificate: DC=com, DC=microsoft, DC=corp, DC=redmond, CN=MSIT Machine Auth CA 2 empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.118705: debug_certificate: Certificate: CN=Microsoft Internet Authority empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.119738: debug_certificate: Certificate: C=IE, O=Baltimore, OU=CyberTrust, CN=Baltimore CyberTrust Root empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.125981: perform_verification: Certificate verification gave result 1 with reason 0 empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.126413: perform_verification: Hostname matched empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.126462: complete_verification: Verification successful, completing... empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.126979: empathy_tls_verifier_finalize: 0x1fb5800 empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.201750: observe_channels: New auth channel to observe empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:21:05.202025: observe_channels: Supported UOA account (/org/freedesktop/Telepathy/Account/gabble/jabber/messenger_2elive_2ecom0), claim SASL channel empathyTls-DEBUG: 02/18/2013 15:22:04.713972: timeout_cb: Timeout reached; exiting... ** Attachment added: "empathyauth.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/+bug/1069882/+attachment/3534982/+files/empathyauth.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069882 Title: Windows Live Requires Authorization To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/+bug/1069882/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
