ibus still broken

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Oct 3 17:14:48 UTC 2009


Ed Greshko wrote:
> Stuart McGraw wrote:
>>>> (ibus-daemon:21356): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : 
>>>>   Can not get value [engine/anthy/shortcut/wnn->add_word]
>>>> (ibus-daemon:21356): IBUS-DEBUG: From ::1.1 to :1.3, Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed : 
>>>>   Can not get value [engine/anthy/shortcut/wnn->start_setup]
>>>>
>>>> They all have in common a message about not getting a value 
>>>> from engine/anthy/shortcut/<something>.  Perhaps these are 
>>>> normal?  If not, do they ring a bell with anyone?
>>>> I don't see any messages when I type the activate sequence 
>>>> (alt-grave) in some window.  
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> As a quick check....what I would do is to create a new user account and
>>> see if things work for that new user.  This will then tell you if it is
>>> simply something that is related to your settings....
>>>     
>> Hadn't thought of that, good idea.  Did so, enabled the IME and 
>> selected Anthy, but same problem exists in the new account.
>>
>>   
> The error messages I've not seen before....nor heard of.  Almost sounds
> as if some other process has reserved the start/stop method.   Since a
> new account would/should start out with a "blank" home directory without
> any .ibus or .dbus directories it would suggest that the problem is
> actually external to ibus.  I'm going to presume that the
> .imsettings.log did not reveal anything either.....
> 
Would that survive a reboot under some conditions? I know some locks can get 
orphaned when problems occur. Is this something that could/should be cleared at 
boot?

> You said you were running Gnome.  Does the same thing happen under KDE?
> 
> Like you said....since it works for others then the problem is unique to
> your system.  Even so, it would be a good idea to file a bugzilla.  The
> developers may not read or pay much attention to this list and with a
> bugzilla may actually have the answer to your problem.
> 
> 
> 


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