Comment 5 for bug 1179180

Same here. I am running Raring 32bits, upgraded from Quantal. Empathy starts and people see me online: I can receive messages and answer then from the messaging menu, but I can't open the main window with the contact list. I tried replacing "empathy -h" by "empathy --start-hidden" in Startup Applications but the behaviour remains exactly the same. The recent update on Empathy did not change anything.