Hello Simon,
On 15/11/2025 15:59, Simon McVittie wrote:
Package: debian-live
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
During 13.2 point release testing
(https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Trixie_r2
scenario 1000f) I booted a Lenovo X1 Carbon (5th gen) from
debian-live-13.2.0-amd64-gnome.iso and installed using Calamares. When I
tried to log in at the gdm3 login prompt, placeholder characters stopped
appearing halfway through typing my password. The keyboard seems to work
fine when I use Ctrl+Alt+F6 and log in to text mode.
I suspect this might be a transient glitch rather than a permanent
problem, but I've collected information from the Journal while I have
the machine available (below). It looks like a problem with either
gnome-shell or ibus.
Thank you for writing the bug report. I've seen this issue randomly
popping up in the openQA tests [1], unfortunately I'm unable to
consistently reproduce the issue.
I've mentioned it in our openQA monthly call [2] and Jordan Petridis
(from GNOMEOS) found this in the log:
```
Sep 03 08:32:56 debian kernel: traps: ibus-extension-[1350] general
protection fault ip:7fe44996abe9 sp:7fff298fdc38 error:0 in
libgobject-2.0.so.0.8400.4[3cbe9,7fe44993e000+35000]
Sep 03 08:32:58 debian gnome-shell[1042]: Error processing key on IM:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not
exist at path “/org/freedesktop/IBus/InputContext_2”
Sep 03 08:32:58 debian gnome-shell[1042]: Error processing key on IM:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not
exist at path “/org/freedesktop/IBus/InputContext_2”
```
There is a segfault in ibus-extension which leads to the keyboard not
working.
I would guess that this issue belongs to ibus.
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
[1] https://openqa.debian.net/tests/437457
[2] https://pad.gnome.org/Cva60O0bQz2Rls2ArIvJhw#
