I got a similar message, and tried running it with sudo. It worked. I've attached the transcript of the session. During the "Updating" and "Saving", I was getting a full working GUI. I then closed it and the program quit.
** Attachment added: "gwibber log, unprivledged and sudo" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49614402/gwibber.log -- RuntimeError: Can not find port of couchdb. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs