Comment 7 for bug 201650

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Charles or charlie, could either of you describe in more detail how this
> bug gets triggered? You mention something about it relating to SCIM?
>
> There are two other recent bug reports about crashes in atieventsd.
> While their backtraces differ, I wonder if they might be related: bug
> 193559 and bug 194249.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - atieventsd crashed with SIGSEGV
> + atieventsd crashed with SIGSEGV in XextAddDisplay
>
> ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
There were a number of updates installed (probably 25 or more) that were
installed. I have been updating 8.04 periodically (sometimes daily,
sometimes more like weekly, and this was after several days of not
updating).

There were only two obvious things I noticed: the large number of
updates, and the fact that I got an error message and a hang when
shutting down that referred to the SCIM initialization. I do not know
if this was the initial install of SCIM or if previous installs and
updates just did not generate any errors so I had not noticed it.

I was able to get past the problem by reinstalling 8.04 from the CD, and
then I used the Synaptic Package Manager to update all packages,
unchecked all the updates that referred to SCIM, and rebooted (as
requested). I then updated the SCIM packages and all worked well.