Comment 8 for bug 425881

For me, the problem disappeared after a reboot; just logging out and in again did not help.

I do have an idea how the problem might have occurred:

What I did was that first I opened the IBus Preferences, while my input method was still
SCIM. (I didn't know what IBus was, so I just opened the preferences out of curiosity.)
I then got a requester saying that the IBus server was not running, and would I like
to start it. I clicked yes, and after that I had the notification icon in the panel. After
looking around in the preferences a bit, I decided to try it out for real, so I did im-switch,
and logged out and in again. Now I got IBus, but no ibus-gtk-ui (meaning no icon in the
gnome panel, and no language panel). What I'm guessing happened is this:

* The ibus daemon started by the preferences tool kept running after I logged out,
   because it was not part of the session

* When the new, IBus enabled session started, the daemon was already running, causing
  the init to bail out early

So while this would only happen during the process of switching to IBus, I think it's a valid
bug...