After an upgrade of both server and client on my coda server machine
from 5.2.4 to 5.2.7 venus doesn't come to life with these logmessages
and stacktrace:

12:21:11 /usr/coda/LOG validated at size 0x500e00
12:21:11 /usr/coda/DATA validated at size 0x14023f8
12:21:12 loading recoverable store
12:21:16 fatal error -- Recov_InitSeg: rvg validation failed, trying restarting venus with -init
12:21:16 Fatal Signal (11); pid 11063 becoming a zombie...
12:21:16 You may use gdb to attach to 11063


(gdb) bt
#0  0x400de984 in __syscall_sigsuspend ()
#1  0x40102e7c in __DTOR_END__ ()
#2  0x8084f92 in FatalSignal (sig=11, code=0, contextPtr=0x0) at sighand.cc:365
#3  0x8084c31 in SEGV (sig=11, code=0, contextPtr=0x0) at sighand.cc:210
#4  0xbffffbfc in ?? ()
#5  0x80a356e in volent::FlushVSRs (this=0x2205bacc, hard=1) at vol_vsr.cc:173
#6  0x808ca56 in vdb::FlushVolume (this=0x223fce0c) at venusvol.cc:553
#7  0x808664c in choke (file=0x8117b96 "venusrecov.cc", line=590, 
    fmt=0x81181bd "Recov_InitSeg: rvg validation failed, trying restarting venus with -init") at venusutil.cc:208
#8  0x808425b in Recov_InitSeg () at venusrecov.cc:590
#9  0x8083631 in RecovInit () at venusrecov.cc:239
#10 0x80886e0 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffdf4) at venus.cc:153

The codasrv process is running.

So I tried to upgrade my client machine and arrived at exactly the
same problem on the client machine.

Downgrading to 5.2.4 seems to work fine:

12:28:19 Last shutdown was clean
12:28:20 starting VSGDB scan
12:28:20        1 vsg entries in table
12:28:20        0 vsg entries on free-list
12:28:20 starting VDB scan
12:28:20        6 vol entries in table (0 MLEs)
12:28:20        0 vol entries on free-list (0 MLEs)
12:28:20 starting FSDB scan (8333, 200000) (25, 75, 4)
12:28:28        2333 cache files in table (95849 blocks)
12:28:40        6000 cache files on free-list
12:28:42 starting HDB scan
12:28:42        0 hdb entries in table
12:28:42        0 hdb entries on free-list
12:28:42 Getting Root Volume information...
12:28:43 Venus starting...
12:28:45 /coda now mounted.

Please let me know when you need additional info. Thanks!


-- 
andreas