Coda File System

Re: failure installing coda-client

From: Peter J. Braam <braam_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 15:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
Bob,

It's definitely up, but maybe one of our gateways is down:

[braam_at_HANDEL coda-demos]$ ping testserver
PING JEPTHE.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU (128.2.185.182): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.2.185.182: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.9 ms
64 bytes from 128.2.185.182: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.4 ms
64 bytes from 128.2.185.182: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.3 ms
64 bytes from 128.2.185.182: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.2 ms

--- JEPTHE.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.2/1.4/1.9 ms
[braam_at_HANDEL coda-demos]$ hosname
bash: hosname: command not found
[braam_at_HANDEL coda-demos]$ hostname
HANDEL.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
[braam_at_HANDEL coda-demos]$ 

I'll forward your message to our facilities people.

- Peter -

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 thoth_at_purplefrog.com wrote:

> "Bradley C. Kuszmaul" <bradley_at_GRANITE.SYSTEMSX.CS.YALE.EDU> ,in message <19970
> 	7101754.NAA03266_at_granite.comp-sci-yale>, wrote: 
> 
> > Peter,
> > 
> > I am making progress, but still having somet trouble.
> >  I fixed up /etc/services
> >  I made my cache be 10MB.
> >  I did
> >   /usr/sbin/venus -init
> > and got a segmentation fault.   A bunch of files in
> > /usr/coda/venus.cache/ were created (things like CacheInfo and V0, V1, etc.)
> > "ls /coda" still says "NOT_REALLY_CODA"
> 
>   One thing I noticed is that if a previous venus does not succeed, later
> ones can enter a "D" state that really hoses the machine ... to the point
> where you can't cleanly reboot it.  Just unmount all the partitions you can
> and hit the reset button.  Your root partition will require an fsck, but
> that's pretty much unavoidable.
> 
>   I have never been able to connect to the testserver, but Peter pointed out
> the /etc/services shortfall and at least now I'm generating UDP packets
> (tcpdump was unable to detect any traffic for the testserver previously).
> 
>   I believe the testserver is currently down.  I can not ping it or telnet to
> it.  The last responding hop on a traceroute is 
> 
> 14  GW.CS.CMU.EDU (128.2.1.8)  131.624 ms  135.285 ms  144.421 ms
> 
> -- 
> Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
>            http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
> 
Received on 1997-07-10 16:38:41