empathy status 'offline' in messaging menu when set as startup app

[Ján Neščivera]

I have empathy added as startup application and it is working as desired (auto startup on login, connecting to all configured accounts) with exception of one issue - in messaging menu status is shown as 'Offline'.
Empathy itself shows status correctly as 'Available'. This is regardles of startup comand used (tried 'empathy -h' and just 'empathy'), only difference is that with '-h' option the Empathy window is not present upon startup (which is what this option does).
So after logon i need to interact with status (it does not matter wheather through messaging menu or Empathy window) and set it to something different (like 'Away') to get statuses synchronized between messaging menu and Empathy.
May this be caused by the fact that when Empathy is set as startup it is launched before messaging menu is initialized and so it is not receiving status updates yet?

Empathy version: 3.4.2.3
Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Architecture: amd64

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thanks for the bug report
attach the empathy debug log file you can get it from help debug menu

[Ján Neščivera (yohny)]

attaching debug log file saved few seconds after empathy startup, without any interaction (except getting log from help menu) so status in messaging menu was still 'Offline', in Empathy it was 'Available'

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

ahh one thing you do
open dash
search startup apps
add empathy there
see the result ?

[Ján Neščivera (yohny)]

thats exactly what i have done to get Empathy launch automatically after login
the command used is 'empathy' but the messaging menu status is not updated also with 'empathy -h' startup command
or did i misunderstood yor question?

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

thats a telepathy-indicator bug i say

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

bug is confirmed i reproduced it

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

here is the video

[Ján Neščivera (yohny)]

I just found a simple workaround for this issue. If empathy autostart is delayed just for a second it is sufficient for messaging menu to be set up with correct status. So I edited ~/.config/autostart/empathy.desktop and appended following line:
X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=1
which causes 1 second delay of empathy autostart and thats enough for messaging menu to be synchronized.