When Empathy is running, with one or more accounts logged in and in Available status, and one or more accounts off-line and listed as "name in use" because the user has logged in elsewhere; when the idle time-out expires Empathy goes to Away status and logs back in to all the "name in use" accounts, kicking the user out wherever else they had logged in!

There are reports that the same thing happens when the computer is no longer idle and Empathy automatically goes back to Available.

When *all* accounts are listed as "name in use" Empathy automatically goes to Offline status, and then the problem does not occur. Apparently it only happens when Empathy is still in Available status because not all accounts are off-line.

The problem can be simulated by manually setting Empathy to Away status when it is Available and there are off-line accounts listed as "name in use", and observing that all accounts are re-enabled.

The correct behaviour would be that Empathy never automatically logs back in to "name in use" accounts, but only does so when explicitly directed to by the user, preferably with one click of a button like Pidgin does.