Created attachment 519028 [details] sosreport Description of problem: This happened on a Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100S2 (https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=615453) during 5.7 test. A segfault of scim-bridge was logged while the system was idle, a few minutes after a root login. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): scim-1.4.4-44.el5.x86_64 scim-bridge-0.4.5-9.el5.x86_64 scim-bridge-gtk-0.4.5-9.el5.i386 How reproducible: sporadically Steps to Reproduce: See description. Actual results: /var/log/secure Aug 4 14:55:47 upd-tx100s2-3 gdm[5756]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) /var/log/messages Aug 4 14:59:43 upd-tx100s2-3 kernel: scim-bridge[6077]: segfault at 0000000000000010 rip 00002b8dad9d7110 rsp 00007fff0137a6b8 error 4 audit.log type=LOGIN msg=audit(1312466147.848:16): login pid=5756 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=0 old ses=4294967295 new ses=2 type=USER_START msg=audit(1312466147.848:17): user pid=5756 uid=0 auid=0 msg='PAM: session open acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary" (h ostname=?, addr=?, terminal=:0 res=success)' type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1312466147.848:18): user pid=5756 uid=0 auid=0 msg='uid=0: exe="/usr/sbin/gdm-binary" (hostname=upd-tx100s2-3, ad dr=172.17.88.163, terminal=:0 res=success)' type=ANOM_ABEND msg=audit(1312466383.787:19): auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 ses=2 pid=6077 comm="scim-bridge" sig=11 Expected results: No segfault logged Additional info: We haven't been able to locate a core dump. Would it be sufficient to follow the instructions in https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-5353 to be able to capture this problem when it occurs?
Please try this scim-bridge bug fix update: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1234.html
Thanks for the hint. The problem didn't reproduce with this update package.