Gwibber will not allow me to log into facebook [closed]

Solution 1:

As mentioned, this is a bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/614742

According to a Gwibber developer, the problem actually lays with the Facebook API:

Since Gwibber was included by default in Ubuntu, usage has gone way up and we quickly exceeded our API request allocation with Facebook. Facebook allocations are per application, not per user, which means Facebook blocks API requests for everyone, not just the users which are refreshing too often, etc.

http://blogs.gnome.org/kenvandine/2010/10/19/gwibber-and-facebook-call-for-help/

Solution 2:

This worked for me, thanks to this user on Ubuntu Forums. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9980897&postcount=15

Go to your home folder and show hidden files, open .config/gwibber/ and delete gwibber.sqlite.

Solution 3:

I found that deleting the gwibber.sqlite as suggested didn't work for me. What did was removing :

.gconf/apps/gwibber/preferences/%gconf.xml

This was under the user profile. Soon as I did this it worked find and the size of the newly created xml file jumped up by 6 times the amount.