Confirmed once agin on latest Hardy. When starting any KDE4 application they block while waiting for scim, until it fails. The simple fix of removing all scim-related packages worked here as well:
libskim0 skim libscim8c2a scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-bridge-client-qt scim-bridge-client-qt4 scim-modules-socket scim-qtimm ** Changed in: scim (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- scim fails to initialize, segfaults, makes kde4 apps take long to load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206302 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