Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused

[dino99]

Get this logged:

oem@ubuntu:~$ journalctl -b | grep ibus

dbus-daemon[1074]: [session uid=120 pid=1074] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.portal.IBus' requested by ':1.18' (uid=120 pid=1135 comm="ibus-daemon --xim --panel disable " label="unconfined")

gnome-shell[1084]: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused

/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1281]: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1281]: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus

/usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1281]: dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus

dbus-daemon[1293]: [session uid=1000 pid=1293] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.portal.IBus' requested by ':1.27' (uid=1000 pid=1458 comm="ibus-daemon --xim --panel disable " label="unconfined")

gnome-shell[1435]: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-15.16-generic 4.15.15
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 5 07:43:59 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Confirmed. But is it breaking anything?

[dino99 (9d9)]

@Daniel

ibus: It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface.

i cant tell it breaks something, but probably does not provide internal outputs needed by the system. Otherwise tell me why ubuntu has decided to add ibus packages to the required package list ?
Actually used by: 'indicator-keyboard' 'gnome-control-center' at least.
So how to know those really work as they might ?

[James Pic (jpic)]

Breaks importing firefox data into brave browser.

[David Oswald (daoswald)]

Upon boot, checking journalctl -eb:

Nove 03 07:13:21 davido-thinkpad gnome-shell[6720]: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused

So I can confirm the error still persists a couple years after reporting. I don't know what side effects it produces.

[Cedric Bhihe (cedric-bhihe)]

Same comment as David Oswald (daoswald) here, from an Arch linux 5.9.3-arch1 running gdm on xorg.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I can't reproduce this on the 21.10 development version of Ubuntu. Would anybody mind if we close this bug report?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[MangoCats (mangocats)]

I found this bug because I was searching for the message:

gnome-shell[PID]: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused

in my journalctl output from a relatively new Ubuntu 21.10 install. No apparent problems, but I was looking to see if I should be concerned?

Summary: Still present in some Ubuntu 21.10 logs.

[Roman (vient1)]

Still present on 24.04 with gnome-shell=45.3-1ubuntu1 and ibus=1.5.29-1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Since this bug has expired it would be useful to get a fresh bug report. Please run:

  ubuntu-bug gnome-shell