Ubuntu 18.10's ibus package breaks password fields in Firefox Beta (65, 66 via PPA)

[Justin Bull]

Essentially https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1765304 but reproducible in Cosmic even with the patched gnome-shell installed via APT.

SYSTEM INFO
=================================

* Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic with latest updates
* proc/version_signature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-14.15-generic 4.18.20
* uname: Linux justin-ubuntu 4.18.0-14-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14 09:01:02 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
* gnome-shell 3.30.1-2ubuntu1.18.10.2
* ibus 1.5.19-1ubuntu1
* Both Firefox 65 and 66 (66.0~b4+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 per official PPA)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
=================================

1. Ensure keyboard input method system is
1. Download Firefox Beta channel via their official PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next
2. Download and install the 1Password X firefox extentsion: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-password-manager/
3. Open the extension window by either pressing the shortcut Ctrl+. or clicking the 1Password icon in the Firefox UI
4. Enter in the password in the input and press enter.

Expected: The vault unlocks or displays a "this is a wrong password"

Actual: The UI appears to "refresh" and nothing occurs.

WORKAROUND/VALIDATION
=================================

Like the original bug, switching the keyboard input method to XIM from iBus resolves the issue suggesting to me that the symptoms I am experiencing are caused by the root issue previously filed, fixed, and deployed.

[Justin Bull (f3ndot)]

Apologies, I meant to state in step one that the input method system is iBus.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I cannot reproduce the issue. I'm on cosmic fully up-to-date with the same versions of gnome-shell and ibus as in the descriptino, tested firefox 66 beta 9 from the firefox-next PPA.

I cannot reproduce the issue described here, nor the original issue in bug #1765304.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Also tested firefox 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 from the Ubuntu repositories, and I cannot observe the problem there either.

To everyone affected: what's your desktop session? Are you running X11 or Wayland?

[Paul Scott (paul-scotto)]

I can into this when using the following:

$ apt list --installed gnome-shell xorg ibus
gnome-shell/cosmic-updates,now 3.30.1-2ubuntu1.18.10.2 amd64 [installed]
ibus/cosmic,now 1.5.19-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
xorg/cosmic,now 1:7.7+19ubuntu8 amd64 [installed]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 14:30 Olivier Tilloy, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Also tested firefox 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 from the Ubuntu
> repositories, and I cannot observe the problem there either.
>
> To everyone affected: what's your desktop session? Are you running X11
> or Wayland?
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814551
>
> Title:
> Ubuntu 18.10's ibus package breaks password fields in Firefox Beta
> (65, 66 via PPA)
>
> Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Essentially
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1765304 but
> reproducible in Cosmic even with the patched gnome-shell installed via
> APT.
>
> SYSTEM INFO
> =================================
>
> * Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic with latest updates
> * proc/version_signature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-14.15-generic 4.18.20
> * uname: Linux justin-ubuntu 4.18.0-14-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14
> 09:01:02 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> * gnome-shell 3.30.1-2ubuntu1.18.10.2
> * ibus 1.5.19-1ubuntu1
> * Both Firefox 65 and 66 (66.0~b4+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 per official
> PPA)
>
>
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
> =================================
>
> 1. Ensure keyboard input method system is
> 1. Download Firefox Beta channel via their official PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next
> 2. Download and install the 1Password X firefox extentsion:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-password-manager/
> 3. Open the extension window by either pressing the shortcut Ctrl+. or
> clicking the 1Password icon in the Firefox UI
> 4. Enter in the password in the input and press enter.
>
> Expected: The vault unlocks or displays a "this is a wrong password"
>
> Actual: The UI appears to "refresh" and nothing occurs.
>
> WORKAROUND/VALIDATION
> =================================
>
> Like the original bug, switching the keyboard input method to XIM from
> iBus resolves the issue suggesting to me that the symptoms I am
> experiencing are caused by the root issue previously filed, fixed, and
> deployed.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1814551/+subscriptions
>

[Coenraad Loubser (dagelf)]

This is still not resolved, from further upstream, for users running gnome-shell.

The only workaround for Firefox is still:
coenraad@coenraad-dell:~$ GTK_IM_MODULE=xim firefox&
[1] 28696
coenraad@coenraad-dell:~$ apt list --installed gnome-shell xorg ibus
Listing... Done
gnome-shell/bionic-updates,now 3.28.4-0ubuntu18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
ibus/bionic,now 1.5.17-3ubuntu4 amd64 [installed]
xorg/bionic-updates,now 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1 amd64 [installed]
coenraad@coenraad-dell:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS \n \l

coenraad@coenraad-dell:~$ ps auxf|grep X
gdm 2821 0.0 0.5 909436 47064 tty1 Sl+ 07:55 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/Xwayland :1024 -rootless -terminate -accessx -core -listen 4 -listen 5 -displayfd 6
coenraad 26434 9.4 0.9 531272 71724 tty2 Sl+ 08:18 0:13 \_ /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt2 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
coenraad@coenraad-dell:~$

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This bug was originally reported against Cosmic, which is now end of life.

@Coenraad, what do you mean by "from further upstream"?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I still can't reproduce the problem in a fully up-to-date bionic VM, using the instructions in bug #1795169, which is a duplicate of the original bug report.
I've tested both X (default) and Wayland sessions.

To anyone affected, can you please point to the particular website you're using to observe the problem?