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 -- Eero