Mark, please could you try to remove your gwibber settings from gconf with "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gwibber" and then check if gwibber works as you expected?
** Changed in: gwibber (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/770061 Title: gwibber-service crashed with GError in __getitem__(): Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: GetIOR failed: The connection is closed) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs