crash of scim

[aaren]

scim crashed. Report attached.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

(I trimmed the description and have attached the report so it is more easily parsable)

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Hi! Thanks for the report.

Can you give some details about what you were doing when this crashed? What scim modules you have installed? Can you get the crash to repeat?

From the backtrace, it looks like scim::FrontEndModule::load failed.

[ville palo (vi64pa)]

backtraces are similiar with Bug #68771 (scim-launcher crashes on startup)
Could this be the same case?

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Just a heads-up. This crasher seems to be quite common -- we have already at least five bugs reported: bug #68771, bug #70078, bug #71086, bug #72059, bug #76673.

I use scim myself on feisty and don't see any crash. Also since the scim package in Ubuntu is too different from the Debian one, I don't have a good guess where the problem may be (nobody seems to experience crashs in Debian), so I need help here. If someone can compare these backtraces or get a backtrace with debug symbols, it would help. Also it would be nice to figure out the exact environment of the system (there is a reportbug script /usr/share/bug/scim/script that may be useful), for example, which scim modules are installed, what locale setting and X keyboard mapping is used, GNOME or KDE, and which IM module (the setting of GTK_IM_MODULE and QT_IM_MODULE) is used, and so on.

I don't have time to investigate this, but if the problem is more clear or this bug can be reliably reproduced, I would be happy to look at it more closely.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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