Empathy - Status icon doesn't update the online status

[Juan Simón]

When I enter in my session, empathy starts the messenger session but the status icon of gnome-shell remains showing the offline icon (see attached screenshot).
If I press the option "Disponible" (Available) in menu and I close the menu, it updates the status icon of gnome-shell.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-3.7-i7 3.4.0
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-i7 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 30 22:31:33 2012
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

It works if I add "empathy -h" to start-up apps.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Praxis (ebiow)]

Simply starting empathy with 'empathy -h' didn't work for me. I didn't try making it autostart. FWIW, this is an upgrade from Karmic via Lucid.

[Carlos Molina (camolin3)]

In unity, I have the same behavior.
Ubuntu 12.04 x64 (fresh install)

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

I have reported a similar bug upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686565

[Rene Arts (renearts)]

I experience the same odd behaviour as Julien Olivier posted on bugzilla. Not a question of life and death, though quite annoying IMHO.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Can you still reproduce this bug?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached End of Life in April. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.