Comment 47 for bug 435329

Well this bug specifically is fix released, we added code to display the status icon when the indicator isn't in the panel and isn't running. That was the specific goal of this bug report.

Please file a bug, specifically explaining what you are doing to get this. Do you have the indicator applet in your panel? Are you running GNOME? What versions of the indicator do you have? (dpkg -l |grep indicator). Is empathy crashing? just not showing up? etc

To get a full backtrace, you need to dump the backtraces for all the threads. (gdb) thread apply all bt full

You can see http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/Debugging for more information for debugging.

Thanks