ibus still broken

[Bill Davidsen]

Tait Clarridge wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:32 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>> I asked here a few days ago about ibus 
>> which broke after I did a yum update.
>>
>> No one responded but I saw some other posts 
>> about different problems with ibus so I 
>> waited until some new updates appeared.
>>
>> However after upgrading again just now, it 
>> is still broken -- still no input editor 
>> appears when I type the enable sequence.  
>> However now the (new) ibus icon says "no 
>> input window" when left-clicked.
>>
>> Is ibus ever going to work?  I write non-
>> english emails everyday and Fedora is 
>> useless to me without a working ibus.  
>> At this point I wonder if I should blow 
>> off Fedora and and just return to Windows?
>>
> 
> I can confirm that it has worked for me as of today on X86_64
> 
> I did it last night on my i386 laptop by doing the following (found
> online).
> 
> yum downgrade ibus-libs
> yum update
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
I believe that Stuart's problem is that once you break ibus it will never dig 
its way out using only the 'upgrade' command, since something appears 
half-updated. I did successful upgrades on a number of system after the problem, 
but on the two systems which had an initial problem a simple upgrade fails. I 
will try downgrading and see if that helps. One system will not do networking 
since the upgrade failed, so I'm not sure what's up with that, it just broken.

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