Comment 31 for bug 1069531

I have the same problem. I don't need/like to add a "google account", I only need to use it for empathy.
When adding it to ubuntu-online-accounts as a jabber account, in the format accountname -AT- gmail.com, empathy can't connect and asks for authentication, the following message is sent to stderr:

(empathy:8345): folks-WARNING **: Failed to reach quiescence normally (0 backends and 1 persona stores still haven't reached quiescence). Forcing IndividualAggregator quiescence due to reaching the timeout.

the account works if it's set up as a "google account", it works in pidgin and in empathy running in other distributions which use gnome online accounts.