scim-panel-gtk makes keyboard not work (often there are 100+ duplicate processes)

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Binary package hint: scim

often after I login, the keyboard does not work, and new programs will stall halfway through launching (ie, splash screen comes up, but then nothing more).

There are many duplicate scim-panel-gtk processes running. if I kill them, the keyboard starts working, and all the programs I tried to launch finish launching.

i'm running
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk
Package: scim 1.4.7-3ubuntu10
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
SourcePackage: scim
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Please open System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Third-Party Software and add the following link:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/arnegoetje/ubuntu intrepid main

Then refresh your package lists and update scim-bridge-agent and scim-bridge-client-gtk from my ppa.

Log out and in again and see if the problem is fixed.

Thanks.

[Tor (mengedej)]

I have something similar going on (does not affect my keyboard) on Kubuntu; I have no idea if it is related.

After a while the kick off menu stops loading programs I try to start etc. I realised I had several (many, many) scim-panel-gtk processes running consuming roughly 1 Gb RAM altogether. I killed them together with scim-launcher and I could launch programs again. (The last program that failed to launch actually popped up from 'nowhere' as soon as the processes were killed)

After a while I'm back in the same situation (each program spawns a few that never close).
If your package address this I'm happy to try it.