[CentOS] SCIM service does not start

[Eero Volotinen]

2010/8/19 sync <jiannma at gmail.com>:
> Hi ,guys :
>
>    I reboot my computer which is installed the CentOS 5.4 64 bits just now
> and find that SCIM service does  not start
>
> And the error message is these:
> root at test  ~: tailf   /var/log/message
> xxxx  scim-bridge: Another agent is running ..
> xxx   scim-bridge: Failed to allocate the agent . Exitting ....
> ....
> ....
>
> I also run this command "ps aux |grep scim " to pick up which process use
> the scim service and kill that ,
> but that problem is as before .
>
> So what could I do ? thanks in advance .....

remove lock file from /var/run/* directories and try again?

if still not working, try strace on the process start

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Eero