[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]

Package: ibus
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

ibus does not work and has not worked for a long time. I am a sid user. 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:

(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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ibus depends on:
ii  dconf-cli                                    0.18.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.18.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.12.0-4
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0                              1.5.5-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.18-4
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.16-2
ii  libdconf1                                    0.18.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.40.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.12.0-4
ii  libgtk2.0-0                                  2.24.23-1
ii  libibus-1.0-5                                1.5.5-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.0-1
ii  librsvg2-common                              2.40.2-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.2-1
ii  python-gi                                    3.12.1-1
ii  python-notify                                0.1.1-3
pn  python:any                                   <none>

Versions of packages ibus recommends:
ii  ibus-gtk   1.5.5-1
ii  ibus-gtk3  1.5.5-1
ii  im-config  0.26-2

Versions of packages ibus suggests:
pn  ibus-clutter  <none>
pn  ibus-doc      <none>
pn  ibus-qt4      <none>

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