ibus causes application crash when using chinese py input method

[Garry Bernardy]

Binary package hint: ibus

Using Ubuntu 9.10
ibus:
  Installed: 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

The problem occures when there is word list pop out, such as when using Chinese-py. When I press left arrow or right arrow which cause it out of bound, it crashes immediately the application where I am typing.

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

can you give an example of an application and the characters you are trying to type. an exact workflow scenario to reproduce the problem might be helpful.

[Garry Bernardy (garry3peace)]

any application, gedit, firefox, tomboy notes, etc

For example typing at gedit, choose Chinese->py, and then type 'wo' and then press left arrow. The gedit hang immediately.

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

i can't seem to replicate this problem. can you move through the characters using the up/down arrow?
what happens when gedit hangs, does the ibus window disappear? does ibus respond to ESC key to close the ibus window?

[Garry Bernardy (garry3peace)]

I can press up and down arrow. But it is not moving per character, but per section
I am not quite understand what is the ibus window, so maybe I just show the screenshot to reproduce the problem.

Screenshot1
This is how I choose Chinese->py

Screenshot2
This picture show when I am typing some words, it will came out the words window, is this the window that you meant? As I press down arrow it moves from section (1/9) to (2/9) not per words, and there is no problem at here.

Screenshot3
But after I press left arrow once, the window disappear and the gedit hang.

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

thanks for the clarification. one more question: does it only happen with py, or also with pinyin?

[Garry Bernardy (garry3peace)]

No problem with pinyin. Seems like it will happen only if the choosing-character-window appear....

[Frank Cheung (fcuk112)]

able to reproduce bug using PY, bug set to CONFIRMED status.

[J (ouyang-jie)]

Similar problem. ibus+PY crashes firefox.

[T Ma (m0909)]

ibus+Cangjie 5 also sometimes causes Firefox to hang. When I force Firefox to shut down, ibus will also be terminated and have to be restarted.

[Ethan Tira-Thompson (ejtttje)]

I have also seen this on a 9.10 desktop installation a few weeks ago, but I didn't figure out what was causing the application crashes other than some association with using py input method. I don't have access to that machine anymore and can't replicate this on a current 9.10 netbook remix installation.

The 9.10 machine was an update from 8.10 and 9.04, previously using SCIM, perhaps this is an artifact of switching from SCIM to ibus...? *shrug*

[Ma Hsiao-chun (mahsiaochun)]

Hi, all.

It's 2012.
Are you still bothered with a IBus 1.2 problem?
The latest stable version of IBus is 1.4.1 now and pre-release of IBus 1.5 is already available.
If not, I'd close this bug as "Fixed Released".

[Garry Bernardy (garry3peace)]

I personally not use iBUS 1.2 anymore, so there is no problem with me...

[Aron Xu (happyaron)]

Mark as incomplete and see if there is anyone still experiencing the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ibus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]