I tried to state my solution for non 2-step verification users as well. I
think previously the Google Login stored a password and now works with
OAuth2 by giving Google access to your account and using an API Key.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Rob Whalley <email address hidden>wrote:

> @Steven Roose - I'm not sure that the proposed fix is correct for the
> bug that was originally raised, after all I'm not using 2-step
> verification. Those who have fixed their problem using the proposed
> workaround are using 2-step verification from what I can tell?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069531
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> Title:
>   Cannot login to Empathy after setting up Google online account
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   Description:  Ubuntu 12.10
>   Release:      12.10
>
>   empathy:
>     Installed: 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
>     Candidate: 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
>     Version table:
>    *** 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1 0
>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   Expected behaviour:
>
>   * New installation of 12.10 Ubuntu
>   * Expected to be able to use Google Talk in Empathy after adding a
> Google account under Online Accounts
>
>   Actual behaviour:
>
>   * Account can be added successfully, however Empathy displays "Google
> Talk Account requires authorisation"
>   * Clicking on the icon opens Online Accounts but does not offer an
> option to perform any further authorisation.
>
>   Investigation:
>
>   * Seahorse shows two entries for the Google account, one of which lists
> the correct password, the other of which lists a seemingly random
> collection of characters separated by percentage symbols
>   * Checked Google account, Ubuntu has permission to access: Picasa Web
> Albums, Profile Information, Google Docs, Google Talk
>   * Google account is not set up to use 2-step verification
>   * Removed account and seahorse entries, set up from scratch
>   * If possible, will use non-alphanumeric characters in passwords, so
> tested with only alphanumeric password - no difference
>   * Not going through a proxy
>
>   Activating empathy-debugger shows:
>
>   wocky/-DEBUG: 21/10/12 11:22:20.784214: _end_element_ns: Received stanza
>   * failure xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'
>       * not-authorized
>       * missing-username xmlns='google:auth'
>   wocky/-DEBUG: 21/10/12 11:22:20.784320: auth_failed:
> wocky-sasl-auth.c:274: Authentication failed!: Authentication failed:
> not-authorized
>   gabbleauthentication-DEBUG: 21/10/12 11:22:20.784421:
> gabble_server_sasl_channel_fail (server-sasl-channel.c:929): auth failed:
> WOCKY_AUTH_ERROR_FAILURE (#6): Authentication     failed: not-authorized
>   gabbleconnection-DEBUG: 21/10/12 11:22:20.784534:
> connector_error_disconnect (connection.c:1760): Interactive authentication
> error, reason 3, dbus error
> org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Error.AuthenticationFailed
>
>   So, it seems that seahorse has the correct password in place, and the
>   Google account is set up in such a way as to allow the application to
>   work. That being the case, it makes no sense to be getting an
>   authorisation error, unless there is something else that isn't
>   immediately obvious.
>
>   Have checked for open bugs here:
>
>   * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bugs
>   * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=telepathy
>
>   However nothing that matched this exact problem jumped out - a lot of
>   issues seem to be with 2-step verification (but as mentioned earlier
>   this has not been enabled).
>
>   Asked for advice here:
>   *
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/204062/cannot-login-to-empathy-after-setting-up-google-online-account
>
>   Was advised to log a bug report.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
>   Package: empathy 3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
>   Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Date: Sun Oct 21 21:21:36 2012
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64
> (20121017.5)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: empathy
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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