Comment 11 for bug 588478

I can also confirm the above, if gwibber is invoked with sudo, it starts up seemingly fine (despite errors).

Strangely enough, it does not when using gksu, in which case this error is seen:

** (gwibber:2396): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'

** (gwibber:2396): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 47, in <module>
    from gwibber.microblog.util import log
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    import log
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/util/log.py", line 9, in <module>
    mkdir(cache_dir)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.cache/gwibber'