[tlug] scim-panel-gtk segfault

[Shawn <javajunkie@example.com>]

Hello,

Running kernel 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.centos.plus on centos5, on shutdown
sometimes I get:

Starting killall:
Sending all processes the TERM signal...scim-panel-gtk
...scim-panel-gtk[4065]- segfault at... error 4.
(sometimes there is one segfault error and sometimes 7+]

This is with the following packages:
 rpm -qa | grep scim
scim-1.4.4-39.el5.x86_64
scim-bridge-gtk-0.4.5-7.el5.i386
scim-libs-1.4.4-39.el5.x86_64
scim-bridge-0.4.5-7.el5.x86_64
scim-anthy-1.2.0-5.el5.x86_64
scim-bridge-gtk-0.4.5-7.el5.x86_64

Also, [and this may be unrelated] I occasionally can't boot into X and
need to: 
#rm /tmp/.X0-lock   
Then I can startx.

I have noticed sometimes that I get the segfault, but the next time I
boot, I can boot into X.  I really don't know enough to guess whether
sometimes it is finishing X and removing the lock before the segfault
and sometimes it is not.

I am not so unhappy with the situation but being unknowledable of course
worry about what effects a segfault during shutdown may have.  I do
notice that after the segfaults, it goes on to unmount the filesystems
and other things that it does normally (but I can't say everything
normally as I don't really understand the normal steps of it shutting
down).

I'd like to:

1) figure out how to stop the segfault especially since sometimes the
scim panel won't appear after a reboot (and requires another reboot to
appear again).

2) see if the scim segfault was indeed causing the trouble with X
starting and if not, figure out why the lock is not being removed.

If you have suggestions as to what to look into, I am happy to hear
them.

The only thing I have tried is googling scim-panel-gtk segfault and
found　２　things of which one seems outdated:

1) newer scim packages scim-1.4.6-5.fc8 (fc8) do fix a segfault:

* Fri Nov 17 2006 Shawn Huang <phuang@example.com> - 1.4.5-2
- add scim-fix-unload-segfault.patch to fix xim process segfaulting
  when already running (#206995)

2 ) scim-lib 0.99.6 is available (13 Aug 2004)
Fixed a bug which causes segfault on x86_64 platform (which I have).

But that must be a different bug as:
rpm -qa | grep scim-lib
scim-libs-1.4.4-39.el5.x86_64

Shawn

P.S.  Note, I do not believe this is in anyway connected to being a
centos plus kernel as on a stock kernel had the trouble.