Firefox, Thunderbird crash if SCIM-Anthy is on

[Jon-o Addleman]

Binary package hint: scim

Using gutsy, I just noticed that if scim is running and japanese language (anthy) is selected, thunderbird will crash when I create a new message.

Steps to reproduce:
1. ctrl-space to activate scim, select japanese (anthy)
2. start thunderbird.
3. ctrl-m to create a new message.

It always crashes following these steps. I've recreated both ~/.scim and ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, without any changes.

If scim is running but isn't active (i.e. no ctrl-space), everything works properly. If I activate it while typing a new message, it doesn't crash immediately, but does when I send the message.

I've noticed a similar problem in firefox - once scim is active, ctrl-n to open a new window will cause a crash. I haven't seen similar problems in other programs, but I don't use scim much in anything else.

Using thunderbird 2.0.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 and scim 1.4.7-1ubuntu2

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Hi Jon-o Addleman,

Thanks for reporting this bug.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0000, Jon-o Addleman wrote:
>
> Using gutsy, I just noticed that if scim is running and japanese
> language (anthy) is selected, thunderbird will crash when I create a new
> message.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. ctrl-space to activate scim, select japanese (anthy)
> 2. start thunderbird.
> 3. ctrl-m to create a new message.
>
> It always crashes following these steps. I've recreated both ~/.scim and
> ~/.mozilla-thunderbird, without any changes.
>
> If scim is running but isn't active (i.e. no ctrl-space), everything
> works properly. If I activate it while typing a new message, it doesn't
> crash immediately, but does when I send the message.
>
> I've noticed a similar problem in firefox - once scim is active, ctrl-n
> to open a new window will cause a crash. I haven't seen similar problems
> in other programs, but I don't use scim much in anything else.

I don't use thunderbird, but I just tested firefox in Gutsy, and I can't
reproduce this bug with scim-pinyin. It may be a problem with
scim-anthy, it may be something specific to you configurations, but
currently I don't have time to investigate.

> Using thunderbird 2.0.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 and scim 1.4.7-1ubuntu2

Ming
2007.10.16

[Jon-o Addleman (jaddle)]

Hmm...

Now it seems to be working again. Curious. Maybe I had updated something and not restarted or something like that? Or else another update in the past two days fixed the problem.

I guess it can be closed!

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Scim hasn't changed for quite a long time, not sure about thunderbird though.

Anyway, closing as suggested. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find, thanks.

[badmigraine (mbalding)]

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, and experience exactly the same bug as Jon-o Addleman described above.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:36:54PM -0000, badmigraine wrote:
> I just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, and experience exactly the
> same bug as Jon-o Addleman described above.

Do you have problem with firefox and scim as well?

Ming
2007.10.21

[badmigraine (mbalding)]

Hi Ming!

Yes, thanks, the problem with Firefox and scim is exactly as Jon-o Addleman described it. If scim-anthy is "on", then in Firefox typing cntrl-n to open a new window (or selecting "open new window" from the right-click menu) immediately causes Firefox to crash and close. But if scim-anthy is "off", then this behavior does not occur.

badmigraine

[Christoph Rupprecht (focx)]

Hi,

I reconfirm the problem, exactly as described above, with both Thunderbird and Firefox in 7.10. There seems to be some discussion going in this direction over here at the Japanese forum (http://forum.ubuntulinux.jp/viewtopic.php?id=881), and they suggest adding the Japanese repository (deb http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja gutsy/) to the sources file.

Having done that, and checking for updates with Update Manager, it updates scim, anthy and the Japanese localization pack. After doing this, the problem is gone! So I guess the Japanese team fixed the bug, whatever it was, in their version.

[Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul)]

On fully updated Gutsy, reproduceable every time :

If (and only if) SCIM Anthy is on, then the following crashes Thunderbird:
- Creating a new message
- Saving a message
- Opening a draft
- Opening an received email (inbox)
- Creating a subfolder
- Opening the addressbook
- Opening "Help>About"
- I haven't tried everything, but pretty much everything

Example of the "Help>About": the "About" pop-up window appears quickly, grey and empty, and Thunderbird crashes immediately.
No visible effect on SCIM.
A workaround is obviously to turn SCIM off whenever performing a Thunderbird action other than edition.

Good luck,
Nicolas Raoul

[Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul)]

Following on my last comment:
It looks like it crashes every time one tries to open a new window (any kind of window) while SCIM is on.

If you need me to try anything, just ask.
Nicolas.

[Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul)]

With SCIM on, I tried to launch the following programs:
- Firefox: opens the window briefly and then crashes.
- Thunderbird: opens the window, which looks good and responsive but crashes for every action described in my 2007-11-18 post.
- Gnome-terminal, korganizer, real player, XSane and presumably any other program: launch and run just fine.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Nicolas, thanks for your detailed report and follow-ups.

I believe the issue is clear enough. We only need some developer who uses scim-anthy to analyze the problem. Also, I suspect the problem is on scim-anthy or anthy instead of scim, as I use scim-pinyin in firefox without any problems.

[ushimitsudoki (ushimitsudoki)]

In addition to what Nicholas noted, I would like to note that the fix Christoph Rupprecht mentioned did *not* work for me.
Although the Japanese Team's repo did update Anthy and a couple other files, Thunderbird continued to crash.

[Mante (mante)]

Glad I found this post. I'm experiencing too the same bug described above. Using Gutsy , scim and anthy

[GilgongoJones (gilgongo)]

I confirm that I have exactly this problem with Firefox (I'm not running Thunderbird) using fully-updated fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 with SCIM and Anthy. If Firefox spawns a new window (eg "About..." or Tools > Addons then it immediately crashes and core dumps. I can't get a trace but have installed Mozilla feedback agent (which has now reported a number of times).

[ubun_two (mgy333)]

I like to add that I have had the exact same issue on both Firefox and Thunderbird. I also use Gutsy, scim and anthy.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Works for me in the latest versions in Hardy.

Tested with scim-anthy being active, both firefox3 and thunderbird seem to be fine. I tested the actions Nicolas described above.

Can you please test with the current Hardy version and confirm if it works for you now or not?

Thanks

[Jani Pellikka (jpellikk)]

I just upgraded my Ubuntu from 7.10 Gutsy to 8.04 Hardy, but I am still experiencing the same problem (with both Firefox 2.0.0.12 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.12) as described here.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Jani, hardy has firefox 3.0 (beta3 for now), why are you still using 2.0.0.12? Do you have a fully updated hardy system? Or are you not using the firefox installed by Ubuntu, but using separately installed firefox instead?

[tyle (tyle7)]

I had the same problem and found that the workaround for bug #85627 helped with this for me. Now I can open the Add-on window in firefox even if Anthy is activated, without causing a crash.

Proposed Workaround:

System -> Preferences -> SCIM Input Method Setup

FrontEnd -> Global Setup

Uncheck the 'Share the same input method among all applications' alternative.

[Christoph Rupprecht (focx)]

So, after upgrading to 8.04 Hardy Heron Xubuntu, the bug still exists. It crashes both Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 and Firefox 3.b5 upon opening new windows. As we are approaching a LTS release, it would be really cool to get this fixed... :/

Jason Melton, I know, it worked for me for like a week, then somehow it started crashing again after another anthy update (not exactly sure about that though).

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

I have just tested it again on a fresh Ubuntu Hardy installation from the daily image from yesterday.
installed scim-anthy, opened firefox3, activated Anthy input method and pressed Ctrl+N to open a new window. Works without problems here.
Installed versions:
libanthy0 9100d-1
scim-anthy 1.2.4-1ubuntu2
firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1

If it still occurs on an upgraded system, maybe it's some configuration thing?
Maybe try to remove .scim/ and try again?

[Ikuya Awashiro (ikuya-fruitsbasket)]

Please show a result of "sudo im-switch -l".

[Michael Wayne Goodman (goodmami)]

I'm running Hardy 8.04, upgraded from Gutsy 7.10.
Problems do occur exactly as described.
I'm using Firefox 3.0b5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.12, scim-anthy-1.2.4

here's the output of "sudo im-switch -l"

Your input method setup under en_US locale as below.
=======================================================
No private configuration can be defined for root account.
=======================================================
The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" .
xinput-all_ALL - status is manual.
 link currently points to scim
default - priority 10
default-xim - priority 0
none - priority 0
Current `best' version is default.
=======================================================
The available input method configuration files are:
default default-xim none scim scim~ scim-chewing scim.dpkg-old scim-immodule scim-pinyin th-xim
=======================================================

[kamereon (kamereon)]

No Problems here on a fresh Hardy -64.
Firefox 3.0, scim 1.4.7, anthy 1.2.4, (No Thunderbird installed)

my sudo im-switch -l looks a little different, though.

Your input method setup under de_DE locale as below.
=======================================================
No private configuration can be defined for root account.
=======================================================
The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" .
xinput-all_ALL - Status ist auto.
 Link verweist zur Zeit auf default
default - Priorität 10
default-xim - Priorität 0
none - Priorität 0
Gegenwärtig »beste« Version ist default.
=======================================================
The available input method configuration files are:
/usr/bin/find: /home/ulf/.xinput.d: No such file or directory
default default-xim none scim scim-bridge scim-immodule th-xim
=======================================================

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

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> No Problems here on a fresh Hardy -64.
> Firefox 3.0, scim 1.4.7, anthy 1.2.4, (No Thunderbird installed)
>
> my sudo im-switch -l looks a little different, though.
      ^^^^^
Try without sudo. This has changed in Hardy, we use user based settings
for im-switch now, not system defaults anymore.
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[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

We believe this bug has been fixed by disabling shared input in SCIM's default configuration in version 1.4.7-3ubuntu7. If you have a custom SCIM configuration in your home directory (i.e. ~/.scim/global or .scim/config are present), please make sure any line with FrontEnd/SharedInputMethod is removed.

If this does not fix the issue, please test with Firefox 3.0 and reopen this bug if the issue is still present there. As Firefox 2 won't be improved anymore it is highly unlikely that this issue is going to be fixed there (if it ever was a bug in firefox at all).

[Jamie Watt (perseus-watt)]

Just to double confirm, turning off the shared input has fixed my problem in Hardy.

I can still use Japanese in Firefox and Thunderbird, but it's no longer crashes. Thanks for the fix.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Closing due to lack of feedback.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Reopening. Still present on a fully updated hardy installation. The trigger/workaround for this bug is "System -> Preferences -> SCIM Input Method Setup" - "FrontEnd -> Global Setup -> Share the same input method among all applications" as described in comment 19.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Just to recap (I think this is clear by reading the comments, but better safe than sorry); This bug is only in scim-anthy, not in scim-pinyin which I have both installed.

[mabawsa (mabawsa)]

I have the same problem even with the proposed workaround. Here is how I recreate it:
firefox (www.yahoo.co.jp) -> ctrl+a ->ctrl+c
thunderbird (or openoffice or evolution) -> ctrl+m -> ctrl+v

now my scim-panel-gtk is 96.7% of the system processes and the computer freezes
Only resolution is to drop into tty1 and run
$pkill -50 scim

Then I restart scim-panel-gtk manually

Interestingly on a manual restart I do not see any bugs. So it may have something to do with the way scim is started.... Still testing this though.

I am running intrepid with all the latest updates from the proposed and backports. I have tried removing these and removing the upgraded packages. The problem persists

[tyle (tyle7)]

I tested some things, and found the following:

If I log out of Ubuntu, and log in again with Japanese or Chinese as session language, firefox will not crash even though scim-anthy is on.

The crash only happens when i have english as session language of ubuntu.

I have also tried opening firefox from terminal with "LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 firefox" , but this makes no difference. As long the Ubuntu session is in English, the crash will occur.

For completion's sake I also tried "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 firefox" from a Japanese Ubuntu session. No crash there either. It seems like it's the language that Ubuntu uses that determines whether firefox will crash or not.

This is on an up to date Ubuntu 8.10.

[mabawsa (mabawsa)]

Strange I only see the behaviour on a machine with Japanese as the main language.

[3shmaoy (3shmaoy)]

Same here on hardy with english as main language
more over both firefox & thunderbird crash right after starting without any actions

ubuntu
      Linux xxx 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 27 18:44:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
thunderbird
      version 2.0.0.19 (20090105),
firefox
      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5
scim
      Smart Common Input Method 1.4.7

after closing scim tray applet
output of is "im-switch -l" below

Your input method setup under en_US locale as below.
=======================================================
The configuration "/home/xxx/.xinput.d/en_US" is defined as a link pointing to
scim
This private configuration supersedes the system wide default.
=======================================================
The system wide default is pointed by "/etc/alternatives/xinput-all_ALL" .
xinput-all_ALL - status is auto.
 link currently points to default
default - priority 10
default-xim - priority 0
none - priority 0
Current `best' version is default.
=======================================================
The available input method configuration files are:
default default-xim none scim scim-bridge scim-immodule th-xim
=======================================================

[Eduard Carcole (ecarcole)]

I am using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.10, Mozilla 3.0.10 and SCIM Smart Common Input Method 1.4.7. I have similar problems as the ones previously reported. When I use SCIM to write in Japanese, Mozilla crashes easily after opening a new window. My computer is a Latitude D630, and I use English as main language.

[Eduard Carcole (ecarcole)]

Sorry, I mean Ubuntu 9.04.

[Joye (ocyeee)]

Just twenty minutes ago, Thunderbird vanished four times while I was replying an email using scim-chewing (Traditional Chinese), activated by Crtl+ Space. I also tried to restart my laptop but the problem continues. I tried to type words in text editor and then copy them to the replied email and it worked. However, everytime I tried to type words directly in email window, the problem occurred. Yesterday, everything seems alright, I installed Google Earth today and the above problem recurred many times during a short period of time.

Besides, after finding this bug report, I recalled that sometimes, Firefox would accidentally vanish, too and I don't know why.

My system use English as main language. Hope this problem will be fixed soon. Thank you for your efforts.

Laptop: ASUS M5200N

List of software (shown in "Synaptic Package Manager"):
Ubuntu 9.04
Thunderbird 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.9.04.1
Firefox 3.0.11
StarDict 3.0.1

List of hardwares:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
01:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
01:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

[Joye (ocyeee)]

Sorry for forgetting mentioning that the version of SCIM Smart Common Input Method is 1.4.7.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

For those running Jaunty or Karmic, please try 1.4.9 from my PPA and let us know if the problem is fixed there. I am one of the Debian maintainers of scim, currently in the process of pushing 1.4.9 into Karmic.

https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/609971/+listing-archive-extra

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting. I think this may be fixed in 1.4.9 which is about to be released in Karmic. Please verify.

https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/hardy/+sourcepub/678492/+listing-archive-extra

I will set this to fix released once 1.4.9 hits karmic unless someone steps up and states here that the 1.4.9 packages from my PPA don't fix the issue for them.

[Eduard Carcole (ecarcole)]

I am currently using SCIM now in Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 in both Firefox and Thunderbird and it works completely fine in all my three computers. No more crashes.

Thank you for fixing this bug!!!

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you Eduard for reporting back. Closing as fixed.