Comment 27 for bug 530541

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 64bit on a Sony Vaio with 4GB Ram, and Core 2 Duo P8600 @2.4GHz.

I get simultaneous crashes in the three following programs randomly and also when I try to start Gwibber:

gwibber
gwibber-service
desktopcouch-service

When I start gwibber from the terminal, I get hundreds of these lines:

WARNING:root:Reading pid file caused error. [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/john/.cache/desktop-couch/desktop-couchdb.pid'

Followed by this:

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 42, in __init__
    self.settings = util.SettingsMonitor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/util.py", line 91, in __init__
    DEFAULT_SETTINGS)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/couch.py", line 66, in __init__
    self.database = CouchDatabase(dbname, create=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/records/server.py", line 53, in __init__
    port = desktopcouch.find_port(ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/__init__.py", line 51, in find_port
    return _direct_access_find_port(pid=pid, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/__init__.py", line 75, in __find_port__linux
    pid = find_pid(start_if_not_running=True, ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/__init__.py", line 35, in find_pid
    pid = start_local_couchdb.start_couchdb(ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/start_local_couchdb.py", line 247, in start_couchdb
    pid, port = run_couchdb(ctx=ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/desktopcouch/start_local_couchdb.py", line 132, in run_couchdb
    raise RuntimeError("Can not start couchdb.")
RuntimeError: Can not start couchdb.