Comment 1 for bug 887432

I've got the same issue in Kubuntu 11.10. I launch Kopete, it opens and signs in as it should, but if I close the buddy list window, I cannot reopen it from the message indicator.

Killing kopete (or opening up a new instance which mysteriously does not have any data - no accounts, no contacts, nothing - then "quitting" it), then reopening it restores it to normal functioning...at least until the budy list window is closed again.