On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:23:39AM -0000, David Cournapeau wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the late reply. It looks like there are two specific 
> problemes, actually: applications hanging up when scim is the IM, and 
> problems when converting from kana to kanji, specific to scim-anthy.
> 
> First, I removed all the settings related to IM from my .xsession and my 
> bashrc, to test it on a per application basis. When I do:
> 
> GTK_IM_MODULE=xim mozilla-thunderbird
> 
> then it launches correctly. If I replace xim by scim in the above 
> command, it does not work anymore.  scim is effectively launched,
> since I get:
> 
> Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
> Loading simple Config module ...
> Creating backend ...
> Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
> Starting SCIM as daemon ...
> GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4
> 
> But it hangs here, apparently doing nothing (no cpu is taken by the 
> process). This is the same whatever application using gtk I launch. 
> Something which may be of some interest is that when I launches an 
> application with GTK_IM_MODULE set to scim under strace, it always hangs 
> at the following call:
> 
> connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/scim-socket-frontend-david"},

I am confused here.  There is a known bug about GTK_IM_MODULE=scim not
working, related to old C++ library libstdc++5, reported as bug #2246.
But this doesn't seem to be the case here.

> I don't know if this is related, but as this cause many problems for 
> other softwares: I have my home on a NFS share,

Maybe, but I have too little experience on NFS to have any informed
opinion.  But as we are talking about this, your /tmp is on a local
disk, isn't it?

Ming
2007.05.15

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scim-anthy does not work and make any application which uses it hang
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107391
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