Comment 3 for bug 107391

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:23:39AM -0000, David Cournapeau wrote:
>
> Sorry for the late reply.　It looks like there are two specific
> problemes, actually: applications hanging up when scim is the IM, and
> problems when converting from kana to kanji, specific to scim-anthy.
>
> First, I removed all the settings related to IM from my .xsession and my
> bashrc, to test it on a per application basis. When I do:
>
> GTK_IM_MODULE=xim mozilla-thunderbird
>
> then it launches correctly. If I replace xim by scim in the above
> command, it does not work anymore. scim is effectively launched,
> since I get:
>
> Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
> Loading simple Config module ...
> Creating backend ...
> Loading socket FrontEnd module ...
> Starting SCIM as daemon ...
> GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4
>
> But it hangs here, apparently doing nothing (no cpu is taken by the
> process). This is the same whatever application using gtk I launch.
> Something which may be of some interest is that when I launches an
> application with GTK_IM_MODULE set to scim under strace, it always hangs
> at the following call:
>
> connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/scim-socket-frontend-david"},

I am confused here. There is a known bug about GTK_IM_MODULE=scim not
working, related to old C++ library libstdc++5, reported as bug #2246.
But this doesn't seem to be the case here.

> I don't know if this is related, but as this cause many problems for
> other softwares: I have my home on a NFS share,

Maybe, but I have too little experience on NFS to have any informed
opinion. But as we are talking about this, your /tmp is on a local
disk, isn't it?

Ming
2007.05.15