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)

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Binary package hint: gwibber

several random crashes today

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gwibber-service 3.0.0.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 24 20:47:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber-service
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber-service
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gwibber-service']
SourcePackage: gwibber
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)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-31 (24 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fuse libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner video

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

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?

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #619654, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.