Bug#573822: RFH: gwibber -- microblogging client for GNOME
On 17 July 2010 03:57, Dionisio E Alonso (Baco) <dalonso@grulic.org.ar> wrote:
> On 20 June 2010 04:39, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> gwibber uses desktopcouch to store messages, and desktopcouch starts a
>> local couchdb instance... the question is why doesn't it work as it
>> should?
>>
>> Here it managed to start the local couchdb but apparently the port number
>> that has been allocated has never been communicated back to the client
>> application through dbus.
>>
>> In your cases it rather looks like that the server was no longer there
>> (or do you have firewalling that could forbid it?).
>>
>
> I think there is a permissions problem in /etc/couchdb/ giving
> permissions to read and execute directories recursively solved
> launching the ubuntu version of the package.
>
> So I installed gwibber, gwibber-service and gwibber-themes from lucid
> and changed permissions in /etc/couchdb/ as
>
> # chmod -R o+rX /etc/couchdb/
>
> And then I could launch gwibber 2.30.0.1
>
Perhaps I didn't mention that it is necessary restart couchdb daemon
after such changes in /etc/couchdb/ folder permissions. And I don't
know if it is really necessary, but worked for me, I also had to erase
~/.local/share/desktop-couch/ the first time, because I had some wrong
configuration from earlier tries.
cheers,
--
Dionisio
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