Bug 55188 – chinput dies/locks up upon login to gdm

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Bug 55188 - chinput dies/locks up upon login to gdm

Summary:	chinput dies/locks up upon login to gdm

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	miniChinput (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Yu Shao
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-10-26 16:05 EDT by Graham Cole
Modified:	2013-01-10 16:37 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-10-26 16:05:32 EDT
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Description Graham Cole 2001-10-26 16:05:26 EDT

Description of Problem:

when you select simplified chinese and log in through gdm, you are still
unable to input chinese.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.0.2

How Reproducible:
Every Time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. slect simplifed chinese at gdm login screen
2. log in
3. start up a terminal, hit ctrl-space and no entry window comes up
as it should.

Actual Results:I did a ps auwx | grep chinput
iakka    7406  0.6  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    12:37   0:00 [chinput
<defunct>]
diakka    7450  0.0  1.2  6460 3308 ?        S    12:37   0:00 chinput

pstree shows the following:
init-+-artsd
     |-atd
     |-chinput
     |-crond
     |-cserver
     |-deskguide_apple
     |-dhcpcd
     |-gconfd-1
     |-gdm---gdm-+-X
     |           `-gnome-session-+-Xsession
     |                           `-chinput


also, if i kill the chinput process that is apparently still alive
according to ps, then restart chinput from the command line, all future
windows I bring up, will be able to bring up the chinese entry window when
I press ctrl-space.

If I don't kill chinput before starting a new one, X sort of locks up.  no
windows/gnome-panel respond.  only the window manager seems to still be
functional at this point.

Expected Results:
I expected the chinese input window to pop up when i hit ctrl-space

Additional Information:

I'm using a Matrox Millenium (MGA 2064W), which does not use an
XFree86 v4.x X server.  On my other machine, an athlon 1.2Mhz with a voodoo
3, chinput seems to work just fine.

Comment 1 Yu Shao 2001-11-12 00:30:25 EST

Commenting out of the last 4 lines of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xinput will fix
the problem. This file belongs to xinitrc-3.20-1.

llch@redhat.com will put a patch through soon.

#if which $XIM_PROGRAM >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
#  echo -n "XIM DEBUG: "
#        $XIM_PROGRAM $XIM_ARGS&
#fi

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