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#1 2009-06-06 19:26:12

salous
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scim stops working atfer upgrading

I have scim installed and it works perfectly until today.
After performing a system upgrade and rebooting, it stops to work,
it does not start at all, here is the error message I got when I tried to launch scim in the command with 'scim -d':

Smart Common Input Method 1.4.9

Launching a SCIM process with x11...
Loading socket Config module ...
Creating backend ...
Loading x11 FrontEnd module ...
Failed to load x11 FrontEnd module.
Failed to launch SCIM.

and here's the pacman log:

[2009-06-06 23:22] starting full system upgrade
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded automake (1.10.2-1 -> 1.11-1)
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded gcc-libs (4.4.0-2 -> 4.4.0-3)
[2009-06-06 23:30] ATTENTION DB PACKAGE:
[2009-06-06 23:30] Please consider to run db_upgrade on Berkeley DB databases with a major db version number update.
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded db (4.7.25-2 -> 4.7.25.4-1)
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded device-mapper (1.02.31-1 -> 1.02.32-1)
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded gcc (4.4.0-2 -> 4.4.0-3)
[2009-06-06 23:30] upgraded gnome-applets (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded gnome-system-monitor (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded libtasn1 (2.1-1 -> 2.2-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded gnutls (2.6.6-1 -> 2.8.0-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded gtk (1.2.10-8 -> 1.2.10-9)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded gtk2 (2.16.1-1 -> 2.16.2-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded lame (3.98.2-1 -> 3.98.2-2)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded libcanberra (0.11-2 -> 0.12-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded libftdi (0.15-1 -> 0.15-2)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded libgsf (1.14.13-1 -> 1.14.14-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded libsndfile (1.0.20-1 -> 1.0.20-2)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded lirc-utils (0.8.5pre2-1 -> 0.8.5-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.45-1 -> 2.02.47-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded vte (0.20.2-1 -> 0.20.3-1)
[2009-06-06 23:31] upgraded xdg-utils (1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.2-2)

any ideas?

edit: I use x86-64, and my laptop with i386 arch is totally fine even with all the packages upgraded, that's damn wierd

Last edited by salous (2009-06-06 19:40:46)

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#2 2009-06-07 02:23:20

imagelife
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Registered: 2008-01-10
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

see you other thread,you should setting xinitrc like this:

export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
scim -d

or you could see the scim wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Scim

Last edited by imagelife (2009-06-07 02:24:58)


just want to tell you!…………

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#3 2009-06-07 02:35:58

salous
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

thank you, imagelife,
but that won't help my issue,
I already have those lines in my .xinitrc and I have researched the wiki throughly.

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#4 2009-06-07 02:47:49

imagelife
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Posts: 49

Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

ok,i have long time not to use scim, instead , i use ibus a long time.
i have try to use scim just now, it works, so i think it is your setting
wrong or update issue.


just want to tell you!…………

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#5 2009-06-07 02:56:02

salous
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Registered: 2009-03-09
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

thank you imagelife,
I think you are right,
may I ask you if you use x86-64?
and do you have all your packages upgraded?
just to make sure it will work after reinstalling Arch,
I can't find any solutions so I'm ready to use the last resort,
thanks for your help!

Last edited by salous (2009-06-07 03:02:53)

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#6 2009-06-07 04:36:24

salous
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

OK, now this is NOT good,
I reinstall my x84-64 Arch and scim still fails to start,
the error message is exactly the same, so I guess this is a package issue?
I suspect this has something to do with the gtk2 update in June 6,
can anyone please confirm this?
if you use 64-bit and you can use scim since June 6 gtk2 update, please confirm this.

note: I use i686 arch on my laptop, and scim works perfectly on it,
I notice that the gtk2 package is still out-dated in i686 repository,
so I guess this is related to gtk2?

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#7 2009-06-07 04:54:53

salous
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Posts: 25

Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

I finally figure it out,
scim DOES launch,
it is the tray icon in the notification area that is gone after the update,
I don't know why it's gone,
but at least scim is working.

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#8 2009-06-07 05:36:44

imagelife
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Posts: 49

Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

my machine is i686.
if it is true, you can report bug.


just want to tell you!…………

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#9 2009-06-07 10:24:27

salous
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Posts: 25

Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

I will wait to see if the gtk2 update in i686 breaks scim tray icon too before firing a bug,
I DO hope it is a bug, if it's not,
then this must be some kind of voodoo...
thanks anyway!

Last edited by salous (2009-06-07 10:25:13)

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#10 2009-06-19 04:06:15

jcci
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From: China / Germany
Registered: 2007-06-10
Posts: 185

Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

Same problem here on several computer, but with no fixed pattern. I really have no idea why the tray icon fails to start at my home and works in the office (same Arch version).
Now some other user in our office are having the same problem using Gnome. No tray icon and also no input.

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#11 2009-06-20 13:59:37

lamnk
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

In my case i must launch "SCIM input method setup" first, after closing that windows then the scim tray icon appears.

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#12 2009-08-07 16:31:11

b4283
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Registered: 2008-11-26
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Re: scim stops working atfer upgrading

I'm having the same kind of problem with SCIM, as you are having that you described in the forum, that the "keyboard" tray-icon of SCIM doesn't appear properly in the notification area.

I've just found an easy solution for this: in your .xinitrc, where you write "scim -d", put and extra "&" to the command, as it would be like "scim -d&" to background the command, as the Xorg loads into itself.

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