as we chatted at IRC and it seems that this problem is not related to empathy its the problem at you end as you were not even able to install empathy from the telepathy ppa. can you please run ubuntu from a live cd session and check if it works for you in that case. thanks in advance
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Empathy not connecting automatically and the status drop down is disabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs