IM-Settings-Daemon error

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • When a general user whose UID/GID is the same as root user's log into the system, error messages below pop up in the gnome window and the user can not input Japanese character.
IM-Settings-Daemon[4938]: CRITICAL **: Giving up to bring the process up because Main Input Method process for IBus rapidly died many times. See .imsettings.log for more details.

$HOME/.imsettings.log shows following messages

imsettings information
==========================
Is DBus enabled: yes
Is imsettings enabled: yes
Is GTK+ supported: yes
Is Qt supported: no
DESKTOP_SESSION: gnome
DISABLE_IMSETTINGS: 
IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_DESKTOP_CHECK: 
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-hMKRyZc5nK,guid=42b52474f2707031beaf2fe000323d7d
GTK_IM_MODULE: 
QT_IM_MODULE: xim
XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
IMSETTINGS_MODULE: IBus
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP: yes


IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: WARNING **: Unable to monitor /home/user/.xinputrc: Error stating file '/home/user/.xinputrc': No such file or directory
IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: INFO: Started IBus: process: /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -r --xim, lang=ja_JP.UTF-8, pid: 16162, id: 13, time: 2013-04-22T08:41:29.107411Z
IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: INFO: Current IM is: IBus
IBus[16162]: Please run ibus-daemon with login user! Do not run ibus-daemon with sudo or su.

IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: WARNING **: Main Input Method process for IBus died with the status 255, but unexpectedly. restarting...
IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: INFO: Started IBus: process: /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -r --xim, lang=ja_JP.UTF-8, pid: 16189, id: 17, time: 2013-04-22T08:41:29.251520Z
IBus[16189]: Please run ibus-daemon with login user! Do not run ibus-daemon with sudo or su.

IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: WARNING **: Main Input Method process for IBus died with the status 255, but unexpectedly. restarting...
IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: INFO: Started IBus: process: /usr/bin/ibus-daemon -r --xim, lang=ja_JP.UTF-8, pid: 16209, id: 20, time: 2013-04-22T08:41:29.335506Z
IBus[16209]: Please run ibus-daemon with login user! Do not run ibus-daemon with sudo or su.

IM-Settings-Daemon[15966]: CRITICAL **: Giving up to bring the process up because Main Input Method process for IBus rapidly died many times. See .imsettings.log for more details.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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