Gnucash freezes after using backspace key

[Skewray]

The following behaviours started after upgrad to Tahr:

Using the the backspace kay while entering data freezes all future entry. Gnucash must be restarted in order to again enter data.

Gnucash forgets the user's sorting of the accounts and the account display columns after closing and reopening. This is a known bug on Gnucash 2.6.1, and (according to the gnucash mailing list) was fixed in 2.6.2.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnucash 1:2.6.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon May 5 08:03:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-02 (122 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: gnucash
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-01 (3 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[poikiloid (efelthauser)]

This is affecting me too, on Kubuntu 14.04 (GnuCash 2.6.1), as well as in Lubuntu 13.10 (GnuCash 2.4).

This is making GnuCash basically unusable.

[tagMacher (tagmacher)]

Unable to reproduce this on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit with GnuCash 2.6.1. Is there a special type of entry / field where this happens?

[Skewray (ubuntu-skewray)]

I have the problem when altering data in the description of an account entry or the amount of an account entry. Other places as well, but at least those two for sure.

[poikiloid (efelthauser)]

Hi all,

It is probably caused by using ibus instead of xim as your input method. see here for fix: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730195

[Skewray (ubuntu-skewray)]

I switched to xim and the problem does appear to have gone away afterwards. This should be confirmed by someone else as well; I had just also changed from LXDE to XFCE before trying it, and afterwards im-config would not allow me to change back to ibus.

[poikiloid (efelthauser)]

hmm, i don't know why you can't re-enable ibus. did you try to restart computer first?
check whether you have im-switch or im-config. (they are not compatible.) i think im-config is the more modern of the two methods.
note that, in order to get ibus to start when I log in on kubuntu, i had to add the ibus daemon to the list of auto-start apps in the system settings. i don't remember the command i entered there to get it to start (i'm away from my linux machine today...) maybe you'll need to do that in XFCE as well...

it is unfortunate how problematic ibus is (i have had various issued with it in the past), but it seems to work best for non-latin/roman character input for many languages. I know there are some other input methods, but the couple i've tried, i couldn't get to work as well as ibus for traditional chinese.

[Skewray (ubuntu-skewray)]

I used im-config to change to xim, and it won't change back, even with a reboot and ibus daemon restart. im-config from the command line attempts to open files in the current working directory and then exits with an error when it doesn't find whatever it expects. Not a very well written program. Also somewhat off topic.

Anyone else confirm the xim fix?

[Christopher C. LaFrancis (clafrancis)]

Installing the package "ibus-gtk" and restarting the ibus daemon fixed the problem for me.

This also appears to be a duplicate of #1306500.