gksudo incompatible with something in scim

[David Chart]

gksudo segfaults on launch when some components of scim are installed. On my
system the critical component appears to be scim-gtk2-immodule, but other
reports suggest that this is not always the problem.

This is being discussed in the forums at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=418509

What happens: It is impossible to launch any application requiring sudo from the
GNOME menus.

What should happen: You should get a little dialog for your password and the
application should launch.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please create a backtrace of the crash? To do this run:
$ gdb gksudo ls
(gdb) run
[wait for the crash]
(gdb) backtrace

and append the information to this bugreport.

Thanks,
 Michael

[David Chart (ubuntu-davidchart)]

Created an attachment (id=5231)
The backtrace from the crash.

I've attached the backtrace as a text file. Hope it helps.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Could you please try this again with the lastest dapper? Some work has been done with scim so this might actually be fixed now.

Cheers,
 michael

[David Chart (ubuntu-davidchart)]

This does appear to be fixed in Dapper.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks, I close this bug for now. Please reopen if the problem reappears.

Cheers,
 Michael