Comment 4 for bug 523829

I'd rather not have to reinstall my system, and I don't really have the bandwidth. I think this bug is important, as I don't believe that I did anything particularly unusual, and I think having a smooth upgrade path is vital. The console output (pretty similar stuff) is below:

toby@leopard:~$ gwibber-accounts &
** (gwibber-accounts:11757): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber-accounts:11757): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber-accounts:11757): 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/toby/.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.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber-accounts", line 80, in <module>
    accounts.GwibberAccountManager()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/accounts.py", line 75, in __init__
    self.protocols = json.loads(self.pub.GetServices())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/lib/__init__.py", line 32, in GetServices
    return self.service.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.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

toby@leopard:~$ LANG=C apt-cache policy gwibber couchdb-bin
gwibber:
  Installed: 2.29.91-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.29.91-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.29.91-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
couchdb-bin:
  Installed: 0.10.0-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.10.0-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.10.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The binary package "couchdb" is not installed, but I believe it's not necessary (provide a system daemon?). I installed it to check, but that made no difference. It is now removed once again.