Hi, Sorry for bothering with a few same posts on my gnome crash problem. After a day's struggling, I sort of see that the problem is with my SCIM. I inserted "scim -d" in the start-up program in the session manager through GUI. Could anyone be kind enough to let me know which config file I should edit to remove this? Thank you. Below is the ~/.xsession-error: /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "kakyo" /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... SESSION_MANAGER=local/kakyo-desktop:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5407 Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd... Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd... Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading socket FrontEnd module ... Starting SCIM as daemon ... Loading socket FrontEnd module ... Starting SCIM as daemon ... Launching a SCIM process with x11... Loading socket Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading x11 FrontEnd module ... kbuildsycoca running... GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 Warning: Crypt::Simple not found ... CheckGmail requires the above packages for password encryption Please download and install from CPAN ( <a href="http://search.cpan.org">http://search.cpan.org</a>) if you want to use this feature ... ScimInputContextPlugin() GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 Can't initialize SocketServer. GTK IM Module SCIM: Cannot connect to Panel! GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 Failed to launch SCIM. Smart Common Input Method 1.4.4 GTK Panel of SCIM 1.4.4 GTK IM Module SCIM: Cannot connect to Panel! ------ Beinan