gedit IBUS-WARNING - The owner of .. /.config/ibus/bus is not root!

[markling]

This is ubuntu-bug report and further info is meant to be added to another bug, but Launchpad could not find it by even a part of its title (odd name must have thown it): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1125944 - "
(gedit:3366): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/oem/.config/ibus/bus is not root!"

Issue occured for me in very specific circumstances: attempt to run two sudo gedit commands running simultaneously. The second failed with the error: (gedit:3214): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/username/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

It failed in the sense that gedit did not open.

It may have been significant that a related command was already running in another terminal (xfce4-terminal 0.6.1) window: sudo iptables -L > iptables_rules_.txt

This comand takes a while to chug through its output. So gedit, or whatver, was already occupied.

While that was happening, I had issued another sudo gedit command in another terminal window: sudo gedit /etc/firewall.bash

It was that comand reported the above-quoted error.

The failed sudo gedit command was resissued after the first had finished. Gedit opened the (new) file this time. It appeared, in other words, to have worked. It nevertheless repeated the error: "(gedit:3301): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/username/.config/ibus/bus is not root!". The file meanwhile, was edited and saved without a problem.

Xubuntu 13.04 i686

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gedit 3.6.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 9 08:41:29 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (192 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (25 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.