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Hi Bradley! Welcome to the Coda club. On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Bradley Marshall wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been having a look at coda for a bit, and it looks very nice - > congratulations. > > I'm now trying to install the client, so I can have a look at how it is, > and am running into a few problems. After installing the appropriate > rpms (coda-debug-client-glibc-4.4.3-1.i386.rpm), and attempting to run > it, I've hit a few problems. > > In kernel 2.1.105, the problems are as follows: > # insmod coda > /var/log/messages responses with > Jun 10 16:06:06 gosling kernel: Coda Kernel/User communications module > 2.0 > which appears fine. > > Then I set up venus to use the testserver: > # venus-setup testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu 10000 > /etc/services already has coda entries.. > which also appears to complete fine. > > However, when running venus > # venus & > /var/log/messages gives: > Jun 10 16:09:20 gosling kernel: coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB! > and nothing seems to happen. > That message is OK. But Coda should now continue to mount! So you got very very close to getting it working but not quite there. > With 2.0.32, after installing the kernel-module rpm > (coda-debug-kernel-2.0.32-module-4.4.0-2.i386.rpm), a depmod -ae > returns: > /lib/modules/2.0.32/fs/coda.o: unresolved symbol(s) > lookup_dentry > dput > __put_user_1 > __get_user_1 > d_delete > __wake_up > __generic_copy_from_user > get_super > __up_wakeup > kfree_s > boot_cpu_data > is_bad_inode > __namei > iget > d_move > d_alloc_root > shrink_dcache_sb > d_add > __verify_write > shrink_dcache_parent > d_instantiate > __generic_copy_to_user > __down_failed > > Am I missing any obvious librarys? Doing anything completely wrong? > I've followed all the instructions I could find.. > You are not doing anything wrong. You may have a slightly different kernel. Get the linux-coda-4.4.0.tgz from /pub/coda/linux/src on ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu and recompile (something like make v21 (read the makefile)). You should get a usable kernel module for 2.0.32. > The system I am trying to install on is a P120, with 64M ram, running > Redhat 5.1. Any additional information available on request. > We haven't gotten RH 5.1 yet, but I don't think it matters -- of course we will do that pretty soon. Keep me posted if you can't get /coda mounted! - Peter - > Thanks in advance, > Brad > -- > Bradley Marshall > Sysadmin > Plugged In Software >Received on 1998-06-10 08:48:15