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ibus cannot start sometime

Bug #441578 reported by Aron Xu
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ibus

Sometimes after install/remove software, ibus will quit, when I trying to start it, it will not load and output like this:

demo@demo-desktop:~$ ibus-daemon -xv

(ibus-daemon:2450): IBUS-CRITICAL **: ibus_write_address: assertion `pf != NULL' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py", line 80, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py", line 76, in main
    launch_panel()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py", line 47, in launch_panel
    UIApplication().run()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/ui/gtk/main.py", line 33, in __init__
    self.__bus = ibus.Bus()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/ibus/bus.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.__dbusconn = dbus.connection.Connection(common.get_address())
TypeError: expected string or Unicode object, NoneType found

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LI Daobing (lidaobing) wrote :

please remove ~/.config/ibus first, then check whether you can reproduce this bug.

thanks.

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ZhengPeng Hou (zhengpeng-hou) wrote :

To Li Daobing:
this is a workround, not sure if upstream has noticed this, and got it fix, it will be difficult for end user to do this.

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LI Daobing (lidaobing) wrote :

the upstream has noticed this, check http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=465, and upstream has mark this bug as fixed.

but latest version still will meet this problem sometimes.

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