I can also confirm the above, if gwibber is invoked with sudo, it starts up seemingly fine (despite errors).
Strangely enough, it does not when using gksu, in which case this error is seen: ** (gwibber:2396): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' ** (gwibber:2396): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 47, in <module> from gwibber.microblog.util import log File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py", line 3, in <module> import log File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/log.py", line 9, in <module> mkdir(cache_dir) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.cache/gwibber' -- 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