After upgrading to suse 8.0 I had a strange problem with canna (which had worked before, and which I eventually could resolve): canna seemed not to work anymore, xemacs etc reporting that it couldn't connect to the canna server and: # ps -aux | grep canna wnn 463 0.0 0.0 1716 4 ? S 07:28 0:00 /usr/sbin/cannaserver wnn 464 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 07:28 0:00 [cannaserver <defunct>] user1 838 0.1 1.0 4268 792 ? S 07:31 0:05 kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna root 1099 0.0 0.8 2020 640 pts/4 D 08:43 0:00 grep canna # /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S06canna stop Shutting down Canna Kanji ServerCannot connect with cannaserver "unix". done I upgraded to the then newest canna packages but this did not help, currently I have # rpm -q -a |grep canna cannadic-0.92-190 canna-yubin-0.0.20010601-220 canna-3.5b2-409 What seemed to have helped finally on June 12 was to insert "unix" into the /etc/hosts file somewhere together with localhost. It then worked fine for nearly a month, until suddenly, on July 7, canna again stopped working with the same symptoms as before (strangely enough as I did not change whatsoever on the system since I made that change in /etc/hosts). Today, I removed /etc/hosts.canna (which contained nothing other than localhost and unix in separate lines) and it worked again. I assume this is no security risk as all ports from outside are closed and the system is standalone (see http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/canna-access-control.html for details). I also have an strace -f -o /tmp/cannaserver-log /usr/sbin/cannaserver log (when it still did not work) that ends in a segmentation fault of the child process that is forked away before the child does anything interesting according to strace. So, basically it seems to work again, though I cannot really explain what suddenly went wrong and why it works again. Best regards, Wolfgang Wolfgang SLANY mailto:wsi@dbai.tuwien.ac.at