Comment 7 for bug 576290

Try to list your accounts and change the status with "mc-tool", a handy command line tool. It should help narrow down where the problem is.

List the accounts:
  mc-tool list

Show an account, this will look something like "gabble/jabber/goa_google_account_1323192590", you can pick one from the output of the previous list command:
  mc-tool show "ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER"

And finally set the status:
 mc-tool request "ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER" available

First off very that these commands seem to do what they should, but also check to see if bringing the accounts online this way makes the contact list populate.