This is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685641 carried over here. Empathy correctly recalls the last state of GOA chat accounts but it doesn't do the same for empathy accounts, which have to be manually started. mission control is 5.12.1 and gnome-shell is 3.4.2 on a gentoo distro.
I just discovered that XMPP accounts are not affected by this, only haze accounts. Actually I do not know about the other account types except XMPP and haze...
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