To reproduce a crash with the existing aspell build (0.60.4-1_i386): # apt-get install scim-pinyin $ GTK_IM_MODULE=scim gedit
On my machine at work, gedit crashes on startup, i.e. with just the above procedure. On my home machine, the following addition is needed: Press Ctrl+Space A short bar should appear at the bottom of the screen; select Chinese (simplified) > Smart Pinyin. Type `w'. Should crash at this point: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x082d35d8 *** If I then install some aspell packages that I recompiled from source (aspell_0.60.4-1_i386.deb libaspell-dev_0.60.4-1_i386.deb libaspell15_0.60.4-1_i386.deb libaspell15c2_0.60.4-1_all.deb), and repeat the above procedure, then it correctly presents a list of chinese characters, and I can press `1' for it to insert `我', and all is happy. [Actually, all is not entirely happy: I can produce ** (gedit:5473): CRITICAL **: get_next_misspelled_word: assertion `word != NULL' failed when I mix different languages in a document, but I assume that that is unrelated.] pjrm.