Comment 7 for bug 840875

Something that might be related to this is that sometimes when I shut down or log out, a window appears asking me to unlock my keyring. I thought my default keyring was unlocked when I logged in, but maybe it isn't anymore? And maybe this is why Empathy complains? Though I wouldn't then understand why I can connect anyway.

I couldn't connect to my Gmail jabber account at all under GNOME Shell, and when I logged out of that session and the keyring prompt appeared, I was able to enter my password and watch Empathy connect successfully before the system had logged me out.