This is happening to me as well. As described by Rodrigo, after a reboot it may work ok for a while. If I click "Quit" from the chat menu and launch it again sometimes it works for a while as well.
I've tried launching Empathy from a console to see if it logs anything but nothing shows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830840 Title: Chat window will not open To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/830840/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs