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A client will not start without an ethernet interface. I think your setup should work when eth0 gets going. Peter On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > I'm having trouble with coda installation - any thoughts? > > I am trying a coda installation on a freshly created RedHat linux 5.1 > system, attempting to put the server and client on the same machine. > The server installation went fine, as far as I can tell. It involved > adding some partitions, installing some RPMs, answering some questions > from vice-setup; nothing seemed alarming, startserver seemed happy, > assorted Coda daemons are running. For all I know, I have a working > SCM Coda server. > > The client, however, is a different story. I installed all the RPMs, > then grabbed the stock 2.1.120 kernel. I compiled the kernel with Coda > support enabled. (make dep; make clean; make zImage; make modules; > make modules_install) and made a bootdisk (mkbootdisk 2.1.120) for > booting into the development kernel. Then I ran the venus-setup > (venus-setup localhost 40000) > > One thing to note is that I only have the localhost interface running > (lo) as I am not sure how to get my eth:0 interface working under > 2.1.120 quite yet. Still, pinging localhost works fine. > > So far, so good. Until this: > > % venus -init & > coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB! > Just mapped in region 20000000,4096) > Just mapped in region 21000000,4481024) > > % cat /usr/coda/etc/vstab > /coda:/dev/cfs0:localhost:/usr/coda/venus.cache:40000:1 > > % cat /usr/coda/etc/console > Coda Venus, version 4.6 (28) > > Date: Wed 09/09/98 > > 19:01:34 /usr/coda/LOG initialized at size 0x112f60 > 19:01:34 /usr/coda/DATA initialized at size 0x44bd80 > 19:01:34 brain-wiping recoverable store > 19:01:35 loading recoverable store > 19:01:35 fatal error -- CommInit RPC2_Init failed > 19:01:35 Fatal Signal (11); pid 462 becoming zombie... > 19:01:25 You may use gdb to attach to 462 > > % ls /coda > NOT_REALLY_CODA > > > >Received on 1998-09-10 09:33:19