[tor-bugs] #9353 [Tor bundles/installation]: Keyboard does not work in 64-bit TBB 2.3.25-10 and 3.0 when ibus is running

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#9353: Keyboard does not work in 64-bit TBB 2.3.25-10 and 3.0 when ibus is running
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     Reporter:  biosh                |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal               |  Milestone:  TorBrowserBundle
    Component:  Tor                  |  2.3.x-stable
  bundles/installation               |    Version:
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Comment (by rpw):

 Results on some nightly dabbling done on Ubuntu 13.10 x86_64:

 A build from source of Debian sid's ibus-1.5.4 packages
 [http://packages.debian.org/sid/ibus] resulted in the same problems as
 using the Ubuntu 13.10 packages. Note that ibus-1.5.4 is the most current
 upstream as of 2013-10-31.

 However, building debs for Debian wheezy's ibus-1.4.1 from source and
 replacing Ubuntu 13.10's ibus packages made me able to use keyboard input
 again. Hilariously, that version of ibus has a format string issue. This
 can be worked around by stripping the -Werror=format-security option from
 CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, for instance by setting DEB_CFLAGS_STRIP and
 DEB_CXXFLAGS environment variables before running dpkg-buildpackage. So
 there's a patch

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
 bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;filename=ibus.debdiff;att=1;bug=710643

 for ibus-1.5.1.is.1.4.2 (someone might want to find out why they reverted
 their 1.5.1 binary packages to be built from 1.4.2 source at that point)
 attached to this bug

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710643

 Building and installing ibus-1.5.1.is.1.4.2 packages makes TBB work again
 as well. The most straightfoward conclusion I would draw from these
 experiments is that whatever changes were done between ibus 1.4 and ibus
 1.5 is causing the pain seen here. Downgrading to ibus 1.4 seems like a
 temporary option, but is not a real solution.

 Also see related fix (#16) in this bug over at launchpad:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1007423

 Note that Rik Shaw is pointing to the wrong PPA though; it should be
 wasta-testing instead of wasta:

 https://launchpad.net/~wasta-linux/+archive/wasta-testing

 More investigation is need to figure out and eliminate the root cause, I
 think this task is up to the ibus people, though. Especially since TBB is
 only one of many applications affected.

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