gwibber crashes at the start

[Little Ant]

When I try to start gwibber, this is what I get:

$ gwibber

** (gwibber:2311): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:2311): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:2311): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Removing stale, deceptive pid file.
Apache CouchDB has started, time to relax.
Browse your desktop CouchDB at file:///home/anty/.local/share/desktop-couch/couchdb.html
No dbus monitor yet
Updating...
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on com.Gwibber.Service:/com/gwibber/Service: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
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 29, in __init__
    self.model = gwui.Model()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 43, in __init__
    self.services = json.loads(self.daemon.GetServices())
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  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.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

I already reinstalled couchdb and desktopcouch, deleted all gwibber-databases, but all gwibber does is creating the "gwibber_preferences" database and crash.

[Luiz Gregorio (lggregorio)]

Was already facing Facebook timeline issues and after today (June 22nd) release, Gwibber stopped working completely. Have tried reinstalling gwibber, desktopcouch and so on but was unlucky

I am running under Ubuntu 9.10 and got these results:

luiz@steve:~$ gwibber

** (gwibber:2958): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:2958): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:2958): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
No dbus monitor yet
Updating...
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on com.Gwibber.Service:/com/gwibber/Service: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
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 29, in __init__
    self.model = gwui.Model()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 43, in __init__
    self.services = json.loads(self.daemon.GetServices())
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  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.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

[matze (matzex)]

On my System,Gwibber works after a restart normal! No Problems anymore!

[Luiz Gregorio (lggregorio)]

Have restarted, rebooted, reinstalled all application, nothing seems to solve.
Also found other people on foruns facing the same after yesterday update

[Mic (nomaster)]

I had the same problem with 2.31.1

Running gwibber-service in debug mode, I discovered python-libproxy to be missing.

Please try installing the package!

[adpads (spam-liberte)]

Thanks! This fix worked.
Same issue here - ppa nightly version would not launch on Lucid.
Installing python-libproxy fixed it!

[Little Ant (mail-anty)]

# apt-get install python-libproxy

fixed the problem for me, too!