SCIM and broken gksudo

[Dennis_Drescher at sil.org]

ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com wrote on 10/31/2005 12:09:53 PM:

> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:47:50 +0000
> From: Sarangan Thuraisingham <sarangan.thuraisingham at gmail.com>
> Subject: SCIM and broken gksudo
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> Hi list,
>    I have already e-mailed about "p4-clockmod" not working properly. But 

> no replies. I hope atleast this query of mine will be answered. Ok,this 
> is the problem:
> 
>    Few days ago, I installed SCIM, as I want to input text in my native 
> tongue - Tamil (a south-indian language). These are the packages I 
> installed:
>    * scim 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-config-gconf 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-config-socket 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-frontend-socket 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-gtk2-immodule 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-m17n 1.0.2-3
>    * scim-server-socket 1.0.2-3
> 
>   Since I installed, scim I cant seem to run program such as synaptic 
> menu. Normally, when you choose synaptic from the menu, you get a popup( 

> created by gksudo) that asks for your password. But now, I get nothing.
> I tried "gksudo synaptic" from command-line and I get the following 
error:
>    Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd...
>    Segmentation fault
> 
>    Do any of you know how to fix this. I can run still run synaptic from 

> the root console. But I would like to fix this somehow.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>   - Saru

Hi Saru,

I might be able to help you on this one. I run SCIM as well so I can use 
KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/) to develop custom keyboards for the 
work we do in our organization with minority languages. I ran into a 
similar problem as well with several applications breaking because of 
segmentation faults. I'm using Breezy and I don't know why it happens but 
in my case what I needed to do was remove the scim-gtk2-immodule package 
and everything started working okay. For what I'm doing I don't need that 
package.

BTW, I'm using the most recent version of SCIM (1.4.1-1). To get a hold of 
it you will need to point your Synaptic repository list toward: 
http://everybody.good-day.net/~ikuya/ubuntu/5.04/  However, if what you 
need to do can be done with 1.0.2-3 (minus the scim-gtk2-immodule package) 
then I would just stay with what is in the standard repository and wait 
for the SCIM guys to update it. In my case I needed 1.4.1-1 to work with 
KMFL. I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Dennis