Comment 3 for bug 1181454

The other day, Google notified me that my password needed to be reset. I did so. Empathy couldn't connect, so I was going to change the password. I started having the same problem you are reporting on two different machines both running 13.04.

From the command line, I was able to launch empathy-accounts once and delete what I believed to be the offending account, but it still isn't working. Now I can't launch it from the command line either.

The only remaining account is one that has the 2-factor authentication turned on. Maybe that's where it's falling down? It used to work, but...