[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#747375: ibus-daemon does not start - no engine set and has no icon and cannot be run from command line

[Dean Chia 贾定]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please do not do TOP-POST.
> I do not know if you followed all my points.
> (Reordered to make this in logical order.)
>
>
Sorry. I am still relatively new at reporting bugs. Thanks for your
patience. Btw, you'll see at the end, my problem is solved now. Don't know
if it was the hard reboot, the reboot after I installed
gobject-introspection and reinstalled ibus-pinyin. Btw, does ibus-m17n
chinese require the ibus-pinyin package? Thanks. I have responded in line
in following comments. You can mark this bug as solved (I guess it wasn't a
bug? I just never realized that gobject-introspection was a needed package).


> > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com
> >wrote:
> ...
> > > > ibus does not work and has not worked for a long time. I am a sid
> user.
>
> When did it work?
>
> > > Same here and ibus working OK here with GNOME3 started by GDM3.  What
> DE
> > > do you use.
>
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 10:15:53AM -0400, Dean Chia 贾定 wrote:
> > I use Gnome3 - the standard that comes with Debian Sid.
>
> OK.
>
> > > > I have
> > > > uninstalled a long while ago and have reinstalled recently. It does
> not
> > > start; there is
> > > > no menu, and I cannot even run it from the command line. If I run it
> in
> > > terminal and
> > > > type "ibus engine" I receive the following:
> > >
> > > I added few IMs via GNOME&s menu and tested.
> > >
> > > $ ibus engine
> > > kkc
> > > $ ibus engine
> > > m17n:ja:tcode
> > > $ ibus engine
> > > pinyin
> > > $ ibus engine
> > > libpinyin
>
> This means ibus-pinin works on my end.  You seem to be doing sopmething
> wrong to me.  Are you sure you have bug.  (At least this is
> unreproducible.)
>

It is finally working. I think what was necessary was the
gobject-introspection package. The Chinese finally works now (using the
m17n:zh:py), but only after I uninstalled ibus-pinyin and reinstalled and
then restart. (I'm not sure what procedure cleared things up, but I did
restart after install gobject-introspection, that didn't work. I did power
down, so maybe that was necessary).

>
> > > > (process:17576): IBUS-CRITICAL **: ibus_bus_get_global_engine:
> assertion
> > > 'IBUS_IS_BUS
> > > > (bus)' failed No engine is set.
> > > >
> > > > I originally had problems with the ibus-pinyin and the Chinese in
> > > ibus-m17n. But I have
> > > > not even got to try it yet, as ibus won't start. Thank you.
>
> You had problem.
>
> > The ibus icon is now showing up in my gnome-task-panel on top. My engine
> is
> > now registered as m17n:zh:py. Unfortunately, it still cannot type
> Chinese.
> > And when I restarted my computer and did ibus-setup to start ibus-daemon
> > (still no icon in Gnome Shell), it turned on ibus but than that replaced
> my
> > normal keyboard input switches (I use US-Dvorak International, TIRO
> Hebrew,
> > and Greek), so I had to re-activate them by removing and re-adding a
> > keyboard back in System Settings --> Keyboard.
>
> Sounds like you have a bit different situation.
>

Yes, this was an old problem with overriding my original keyboard layouts.
Now, it is okay.

>
>
> > > I used to use ibus with ibus-anthy.  Now I am using it with ibus-kkc
> > > (not yet in unstable).
> > >
> > > So we use different enginie.
>
> Actually, I tested ibus-pinyin too.  It is OK.
>
> > > ibus-pinyin has bug
> > >   #746969 [src:ibus-pinyin] ibus-pinyin depends on Gobject
> Introspection
> > >  ==> Can you install gobject-introspection package?
>
> Did you do this?
>

Yes I did. Perhaps this is what helped. (Of course, when it finally worked,
my locales were switched to chinese, but I logged out, and everything is
back to English after I reset locale).

>
> > > I have both ibus-m17n and ibus-pinyin installed.  So they should not
> > > break system foy you.
> > >
> > > If you are using ibus-setup to set, it may not be working... I did not
> > > use it.
>
> > I tried uninstalling and reinstalling ibus-pinyin as well as
> > ibus-googlepinyin.
>
> Wait.  You use ibus-googlepinyin, too.
>

I was being desperate. But it now works without it. I uninstalled it. So it
works, the m17n:zh:py. I want to see ifh

>
> Anyway, do they still causing errors such as:
>   IBUS-CRITICAL **: ibus_bus_get_global_engine: assertion
>
> Please test this with and without ibus-googlepinyin.
>

I uninstalled googlepinyin. It still works.

>
> > However, it seems that there is no engine that drives my
> > Chinese. All I get is more English.
>
> How do you know?  Have you installed required fonts?
>

I have Chinese fonts. It just didn't work. But after a hard reboot, it
works now.


>
> By the way, is this your first time setting up this kind of things or
> are you familiar with things?
>
> If you do not know how, please seek help elsewhere.  This is bug report
> communication only.
>
> Also, have you configured system properly with "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> If you kept using "apt-get upgrade" only, system may get into funckey
> situation beyond what we support.
>

I am familiar with ibus policies, and I have been on sid for quite some
time. I use aptitude (not big difference), and I constantly upgrade. I did
a full-upgrade when I switched from testing to sid. But that was a while
back. It's working now, everything. I will see if I can uninstall
ibus-pinyin (keeping m17n).

>
> Osamu
>
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