I made a lot of tests and found out that this is probably a UI bug in gnome-control-center, I'll update the title and description now
** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Empathy creates a bogus and nonfunctional gtalk account + Pre-existing empathy gtalk account clashes with the "online-accounts" one -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924473 Title: Pre-existing empathy gtalk account clashes with the "online-accounts" one Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Empathy creates a second gtalk account, identical to the first one... when launching empathy it fails to connect with the bogus account, and thus displays an error after removing this account and logging off and on again, it appears again (but not more than one time: it doesn't cumulate between logins, it'll just create a single copy of the normal gtalk account) this doesn't happen with the other (facebook, bonjour, msn) accounts that I've configured ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.3.4-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.20-generic 3.2.2 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 31 20:19:50 2012 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012) SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-20 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/924473/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp