Bug 33212

Summary:	ibus errors in wayland, when only a US keyboard is configured and used.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Pierre Fortin <pfortin>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/discuss/2024-05/msg00007.html
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Pierre Fortin 2024-05-14 17:48:15 CEST

Description of problem:  I'm more interested in disabling/removing useless ibus. Yes, "useless" as I use a US 105 keyboard and have no use for non-Latin layouts. I was never asked about loading this useless feature.  

See also the Mageia discuss mailing list; subject: IBus -- what good is it in a single keyboard, non_Latin environment?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -qa|grep ibus|sort
ibus-1.5.29-1.mga10
ibus-dicts-emoji-1.5.29-1.mga10
ibus-gtk-1.5.29-1.mga10
ibus-gtk3-1.5.29-1.mga10
ibus-m17n-1.4.18-1.mga9         +
ibus-ui-gtk3-1.5.29-1.mga10
lib64ibus1.0_5-1.5.29-1.mga10
lib64ibus-gir1.0-1.5.29-1.mga10


How reproducible:  too often -- 112 crashes in 6.5 days


Steps to Reproduce:
1.no idea; just use the system... 
2.
3.

With all this in /etc, I need to know how to disable/remove ibus without killing my keyoard input...

$ find /etc | grep ibus
/etc/dconf/profile/ibus
/etc/dconf/db/ibus.d
/etc/dconf/db/ibus.d/00-upstream-settings
/etc/dconf/db/ibus
/etc/bash_completion.d/ibus.bash
/etc/xdg/Xwayland-session.d/10-ibus-x11

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2024-06-21 15:26:38 CEST

From the thread on discuss ml https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/discuss/2024-05/msg00007.html I understand the main problem is with a package that isn't provided by Mageia:

(signal-desktop:945658): IBUS-WARNING **: 07:21:22.405: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.

(signal-desktop:945658): IBUS-WARNING **: 07:21:22.987: Events queue growing too big, will start to drop.

This is something we can't look into, because we don't support 3rd party packages, so this issue doesn't count as a Mageia bug. 

About the warnings you see when using other applications, like:
(emacs:1694687): IBUS-WARNING **: 10:28:56.079: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Resource temporarily unavailable
(emacs:1694687): IBUS-WARNING **: 10:36:24.019: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Resource temporarily unavailable
(emacs:894910): IBUS-WARNING **: 10:36:24.019: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Resource temporarily unavailable
(chromium-browser:369685): IBUS-WARNING **: 10:36:24.019: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Resource temporarily unavailable


Doesn't it make sense that you can't connect to ibus, if there's no non-latin keyboard layout and/or no input method configured in it? So about this second part, I'm seriously doubting whether this is a bug.

Setting this report to unconfirmed for now.

URL: (none) => https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/discuss/2024-05/msg00007.html
Summary: ibus crashes => ibus errors in wayland, when only a US keyboard is configured and used.
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0
CC: (none) => marja11
Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED