(In reply to comment #1)
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1227401536 (LWP 15702)]
> 0xb5a385b2 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> 
> #0  0xb5a385b2 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #1  0xb5a385d4 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #2  0xb5a38606 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #3  0xb5a385d4 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #4  0xb5a38606 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #5  0xb5a3862a in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #6  0xb5a38606 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #7  0xb5a388f1 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #8  0xb5a38ac8 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #9  0xb5a38b5a in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #10 0xb5a35daa in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #11 0xb5a38fcd in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #12 0xb5a396ed in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #13 0xb5a3a54f in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #14 0xb5a39668 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #15 0xb5a3a4c1 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #16 0xb5a39668 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #17 0xb5a3445d in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #18 0xb5a3bdef in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #19 0xb5a3beae in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #20 0xb5a39221 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #21 0xb5a3a6a8 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #22 0xb5a3a785 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> #23 0xb5a3964b in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #24 0xb5a3928e in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #25 0xb5a33c8e in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #26 0xb5a34558 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #27 0xb5a35930 in uim_quit () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #28 0xb5a3fef9 in uim_scm_eval_c_string () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #29 0xb5a400b8 in uim_scm_require_file () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #30 0xb5a3312f in uim_set_surrounding_text () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #31 0xb5a331b4 in uim_init () from /usr/lib/libuim.so.0
> #32 0xb5a610a3 in im_module_init ()
>    from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/immodules/im-uim.so
> #33 0xb7b66e20 in gtk_im_context_simple_add_table ()
>    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #34 0xb75bb6f5 in g_type_module_use () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
> #35 0xb7b67574 in _gtk_im_module_create () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #36 0xb7b67d4c in gtk_im_multicontext_new () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #37 0xb7b67def in gtk_im_multicontext_new () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #38 0xb7b65cef in gtk_im_context_get_preedit_string ()
>    from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #39 0xb7b133f5 in gtk_entry_get_text () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #40 0xb7b135c4 in gtk_entry_get_text () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #41 0xb7b1457e in gtk_entry_get_text () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #42 0xb752d750 in g_child_watch_add () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> #43 0xb752b4ee in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #44 0xb752e4f6 in g_main_context_check () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #45 0xb752e7e3 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #46 0xb7b7fe65 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> #47 0x0804a087 in main ()
> 

removing uim and all its components solved the problem.