On 17 July 2010 03:57, Dionisio E Alonso (Baco) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 June 2010 04:39, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
