I believe this is a problem with AppArmor in 12.04. I've been using
this same setup for a while now, so I don't think it affects previous
versions.
In /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home, HOME is rigidly defined as /home/.
I put home in /u01/home, it meant that the apparmor profile for
Telepathy was
Unfortunately, being able to relocate home directories is very typical
on *nix systems from my experience. The best possible case would be to
somehow search /etc/passwd for home directories and only allow it to run
out of those on a per-user basis. This isn't necessarily relevant to
Empathy or
