SCIM breaks Gizmo

[Michael Robinson]

Using a recent release of Gizmo Project (1.0.0.17 or 1.0.0.18) Debian package downloaded from here:

http://www.gizmoproject.com/download-linux.html

Current Kubuntu Dapper with scim breaks with the following error message:

*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x084573d0 ***

Starting gizmo with an input method override works around this bug:

$ GTK_IM_MODULE=xim gizmo

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

I first thought this is the same bug as #2246, i.e., incompatibility due to gizmo linked to libstdc++5. But it turns out gizmo is linked to libstdc++6, so it's probably not related to #2246, but instead the c++ allocator change.

However gizmo-project is quite poorly packaged, the Depends of the package doesn't include information of which version of libstdc++6 it needs, and therefore I can't figure out which version of g++ they used to built the gizmo-project package.

Michael, please contact gizmo-project and ask them which version of g++ they used to build the debian package. And ask them to rebuild the package with a more recent g++ (for 4.0, use >= 4.0.2-4; for 3.4, user >= 3.4.4-10) and this bug should go away.

This is a bug in gizmo-project, scim-gtk2-immodule only triggered it. You can of course keep using the GTK_IM_MODULE=xim workaround.

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

Ming Hua: are you sure?

hunzikea@AlexT60:~$ ldd /usr/bin/gizmo | grep std
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0xb7113000)

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

Hey, my last comment was more than a year ago. It is possible that Gizmo changed its binary build since then. I may be wrong, but it's not important now.

If gizmo is indeed linked to libstdc++.so.5, this bug should be marked as a duplicate to bug #2246.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

The Gizmo website clearly label their version 2.0.0.56 package for Debian/Ubuntu as linked to libstdc++5. Apparently they are targeting Debian sarge and Ubuntu dapper. The RPM package for Fedora and OpenSUSE, on the other hand, is labeled as linking to libstdc++6.

So this is a duplicate of bug #2246.

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

Sorry, didn't check the date of your post. Thanks for checking the site and clarifying it. I'll write them and ask for packages for more recent Ubuntu versions.

[Alexander Hunziker (alex-hunziker)]

Gizmo just released DEB's for both libstdc++5 and libstdc++6.

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