I've just seen some odd behavior, which seems worth reporting for reference, in case anyone else runs across it. The problem appears to have gone away, so unless it returns, there isn't really anything to file as a full bug report,
The short version is that, after upgrading Discord to version 0.0.16 and rebooting (the first reboot after a lot of package upgrades against Debian testing), I was getting SCIM errors in syslog (and, as a consequence, in every open terminal). This continued until I shut down Discord, downgraded it to the previous version, tried to launch it (and ran up against the fact that Discord won't launch if it thinks there's a newer version available), and reinstalled the upgraded version from the same .deb as I'd originally used. Since that reinstall, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue. I run Discord, installed via the official Discord-provided .deb (which is targeted for Ubuntu, but doesn't seem to have any Ubuntu-isms in it packaging-wise, and seems to work fine on Debian). Last night, I upgraded from version 0.0.15 to version 0.0.16, following an in-client prompt to download and install a new "base version" .deb. (The client will install updates automatically on the fly, to within limits, but every now and then they release a new "base version" and will refuse to launch until you've installed that.) Following the upgrade, I saw no particular issues. Overnight last night, there was an apparently-brief power issue at my residence; as my UPS hasn't been in working order for years, this meant my desktop shut down, taking Discord with it. This was after a 52-day uptime period, making it (I believe) my first or at worst my third reboot since the stable release; I've been installing package updates from testing on a daily basis ever since. As a result, it was also the first opportunity various programs may have had to fully re-launch from scratch following their own upgrades. After I booted this morning and re-launched Discord, I started to see messages in every single open terminal (including those displaying active programs such as less or nano), of the following form: -------- Message from syslogd@myhostname at Sep 23 06:49:19 ... such IMContext -------- These messages usually appeared in groups, sometimes 4 or more in a single second. However, they weren't flooding in; they were appearing in discrete batches. Examining /var/log/syslog showed that these are a truncated version of a longer message: -------- Sep 23 06:49:19 myhostname such IMContext Sep 23 06:49:19 myhostname scim-bridge: No such IMContext -------- Google indicates that this (and other messages) have in the past been seen to appear when scim-bridge is crashing, although it's been years since the last such occurrence that I could find mentioned. However, initial testing seemed to show that SCIM was working fine; the key combination which toggles on and off SCIM input was producing the expected result, at least in those same terminals. After further investigation, I noticed that the error batches were being printed whenever I brought the Discord window into and out of focus. (I later discovered that the same messages, as well as others which seem like they might reflect a more serious issue, were being logged whenever I hit Backspace while typing in Discord.) After a bunch of false trails, including an attempt to downgrade Discord to confirm that Discord was the determining factor in the problem (rather than some unknown one of the upgrades carried out since the previous reboot) which failed because of the refuse-to-launch behavior I mentioned, I reinstalled the Discord 0.0.16 .deb and re-launched Discord - and the messages stopped appearing. I haven't been able to make them show up again since. I'm a bit concerned that the apparent disappearance of the symptom may not reflect a real elimination of the problem; it seems possible that this will happen whenever Discord is launched before some other part of the system (e.g., perhaps, SCIM itself) has been initiated after a reboot. However, I've got no way to test that without rebooting again, and I've got things I want to actually do this morning. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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