Hello, Here's more info on the problem below: newer scim packages scim-1.4.6-5.fc8 (fc8) do fix a segfault: * Fri Nov 17 2006 Shawn Huang <phuang at redhat.com> - 1.4.5-2 - add scim-fix-unload-segfault.patch to fix xim process segfaulting when already running (#206995) Could that be the issue? ------previous post below -------- Running kernel 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.centos.plus on centos5, on shutdown sometimes I get: Starting killall: Sending all processes the TERM signal...scim-panel-gtk ...scim-panel-gtk[4065]- segfault at... error 4. (sometimes there is one segfault error and sometimes 7+] rpm -qa | grep scim scim-1.4.4-39.el5.x86_64 scim-bridge-gtk-0.4.5-7.el5.i386 scim-libs-1.4.4-39.el5.x86_64 scim-bridge-0.4.5-7.el5.x86_64 scim-anthy-1.2.0-5.el5.x86_64 scim-bridge-gtk-0.4.5-7.el5.x86_64