FS#12626 - SCIM fails to start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Hans Lundmark (halun) - Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 14:28 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 01 March 2009, 22:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

After I updated a bunch of packages with "pacman -Syu" (see below), SCIM (which worked yesterday) now refuses to start:

> $ scim -d
> Smart Common Input Method 1.4.7
>
> Launching a SCIM process with x11...
> Loading socket Config module ...
> Creating backend ...
> Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
> Failed to launch SCIM.

I tried rebuilding the package using ABS, but that didn't help.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
scim 1.4.7-1

* config and/or log files etc.
From /var/log/pacman.log:
[2008-12-30 16:48] starting full system upgrade
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded blas (20070405-1 -> 20070405-2)
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded zlib (1.2.3.3-2 -> 1.2.3.3-3)
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded openssl (0.9.8i-2 -> 0.9.8i-3)
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded ca-certificates (20080809-4 -> 20080809-5)
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded dbus-glib (0.76-1 -> 0.78-1)
[2008-12-30 16:50] upgraded diffutils (2.8.1-5 -> 2.8.1-6)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded libxml2 (2.6.32-5 -> 2.7.2-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded gconf (2.24.0-1 -> 2.24.0-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded libtasn1 (1.5-2 -> 1.7-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded gnutls (2.4.2-1 -> 2.6.3-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded gtkspell (2.0.13-1 -> 2.0.15-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xaw3d (1.5-4 -> 1.5E-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded gv (3.6.6-1 -> 3.6.6-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded hal-info (0.20081022-1 -> 0.20081219-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] ==> Run 'hwd -u' to update xorgtable, pci-, and usb.ids.
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded hwd (5.4-1 -> 5.4.1-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded hwdetect (2008.12-2 -> 2008.12-3)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded imagemagick (6.4.7.8-1 -> 6.4.8.2-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded klibc-udev (130-1 -> 135-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded lapack (3.1.1-4 -> 3.2-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded libdmx (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.2-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded libgsf (1.14.8-1 -> 1.14.10-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded libxfont (1.3.3-1 -> 1.3.4-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded poppler (0.10.1-1 -> 0.10.2-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.1-1 -> 0.10.2-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded qscintilla (2.3.2-1 -> 2.3.2-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded rsync (3.0.4-1 -> 3.0.5-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded sqlite3 (3.6.7-1 -> 3.6.7-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded texmacs (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.7-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded timidity++ (2.13.2-7 -> 2.13.2-8)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded udev (130-1 -> 135-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded wxmaxima (0.7.6-1 -> 0.8.1-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xemacs (21.5.28-6 -> 21.5.28-7)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xextproto (7.0.3-2 -> 7.0.4-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xf86-input-synaptics (0.99.2-1 -> 0.99.3-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.0.0-2 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xkeyboard-config (1.4-1 -> 1.4-2)
[2008-12-30 16:51] upgraded xorg-font-utils (1.0.3-3 -> 7.4-1)


Steps to reproduce:

Run "scim" or "scim -d".
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 01 March 2009, 22:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jonathan Glines (antiNeo) - Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 23:36 GMT
I have the same problem. My arch install is fairly new, though, and I have never had SCIM working.
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 04:02 GMT
Please test with scim-1.4.8-1 in [testing]. See http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-February/003805.html for more details.
Comment by Hans Lundmark (halun) - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 13:25 GMT
I haven't tried the new version, but now scim 1.4.7-1 launches without protests again, so the error seems to have been caused by some other package which has been fixed now.

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