gwibber fails to start

[otakuj462]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Gwibber crashes when trying to start, with the following error message:

Updating...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 67, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 447, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 41, in __init__
    if len(json.loads(self.service.GetAccounts())) == 0:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 491, in GetAccounts
    for account in self.accounts.get_records(COUCH_TYPE_ACCOUNT, True):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 482, in get_records
    exists = self.view_exists(view_name, design_doc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 429, in view_exists
    self.with_reconnects(self.db.__getitem__, doc_id)["views"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 168, in with_reconnects
    self._reconnect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server_base.py", line 176, in _reconnect
    if self._database_name not in self._server:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 124, in __contains__
    self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 981, in head
    return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1014, in _request
    resp, data = _make_request()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/couchdb/client.py", line 1009, in _make_request
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1129, in request
    (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 901, in _request
    (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/httplib2/__init__.py", line 871, in _conn_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 984, in getresponse
    method=self._method)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.fp = sock.makefile('rb', 0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'makefile'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gwibber 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 16 20:46:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 523964, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.