src/ibusshare.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ibusshare.c b/src/ibusshare.c
index dc7c350..3b09dfb 100644
--- a/src/ibusshare.c
+++ b/src/ibusshare.c
@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ ibus_get_local_machine_id (void)
 
     if (machine_id == NULL) {
         GError *error = NULL;
-        if (!g_file_get_contents ("/var/lib/dbus/machine-id",
+        if (!g_file_get_contents ("/etc/machine-id",
+                                  &machine_id,
+                                  NULL,
+                                  NULL) &&
+            !g_file_get_contents ("/var/lib/dbus/machine-id",
                                   &machine_id,
                                   NULL,
                                   &error)) {