After adding scim-m17n scim does not work automatically

The very first scim process started in a session seems to die:

spindler 6436 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:22 0:00 [scim] <defunct>
spindler 6461 0.0 0.4 7352 2196 ? Ss 13:23 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c simple -e all -f socket --no-stay
spindler 6477 0.0 0.1 4148 796 ? Ss 13:23 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-helper-manager
spindler 6478 0.0 1.4 26224 6380 ? Ssl 13:23 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk --display :0.0 -c socket -d --no-stay
spindler 6480 0.0 0.1 6164 848 ? Ss 13:23 0:00 /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-launcher -d -c socket -e socket -f x11
spindler 6579 0.0 0.3 8516 1764 ? S 13:23 0:00 scim-bridge
spindler 6634 0.0 0.1 3004 744 pts/0 R+ 13:23 0:00 grep scim

The first process is a zombie on all systems, independent if they work or not.

The problem seems to be in scim-bridge, setting scim to use scim-immodule with
$ im_module -s scim-immodule
does work.

The correct command is:
$ im-switch -s scim-bridge

It's not clear what im-switch setting the bug reporter was using when this bug exists (It seems to me the correct command should be "im-switch -s scim-immodule", not "... scim-bridge"), but I suspect this is the same bug as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431294.

When removing ispell.mim from /usr/share/m17n scim will work again. I suggest targeting the bug also vs scim-m17n and updating this packages by removing ispell.mim.

Ming, the zombie process is not related with this bug, I was on a wrong track then.

apparently a rebuild against the latest libraries is necessary to fix this bug.

We're at this version already - should this be 1.3.1-1ubuntu2 instead?

m17n-db (1.3.1-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * added patch to fix the buggy backspace in vi-telex (Thanks to Jean
    Christophe André)
  * added patch to fix the 'aff' entry in vi-telex (LP: #103328)
  * Changed the Maintainer field
  * Bumped up Standards to 3.7.3

 -- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:02:34 +0800

Nevermind...

still as a minor nitpick: for a rebuild it should only be 1.3.1-1.1build1 instead of 1.3.1-1.1ubuntu1. That way we can just sync the next upload to Debian.

also: LP #210860 -> LP: #210860.

This bug was fixed in the package m17n-lib - 1.3.1-1.1build1

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m17n-lib (1.3.1-1.1build1) hardy; urgency=low

  * rebuild against the latest libraries (LP: #210860)

 -- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:46:12 +0800