The culprit is most likely skim. Please purge the skim package (yes, with 'k') from your system and see if the problem goes away. The reason is that skim was installed by default, but has not been ported to qt4 yet. Therefor it causes problems like this in a qt4 environment.
** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- knotes and kontact fail to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282666 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs