Hi,

We did have this error in old versions of Coda (it was a race condition in
RVM which the whole group attacked one evening and tracked down). 

Is there an old codasrv in /vice/bin by chance? 

- Peter -

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 02:07:07PM +0100, Detlef Weitz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I got always the same error after starting the server:
> > 
> > ErrLog:
> > 
> > Assertion failed: ret == RVM_SUCCESS, file
> > "/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-5.3.3/coda-src/vol/recovc.cc", line 168
> > Sleeping forever.  You may use gdb to attach to process
> > 12669./vice/srv#      
> 
> That is on one of the first rvm transactions the server makes. This
> error doesn't ring a bell, never seen anything happen around this
> location before. What I don't understand is why you don't see the
> error message printed;
> 
>         if (ret != RVM_SUCCESS)
>             printf("Modify Bytes error %s\n",rvm_return(ret));
>         CODA_ASSERT(ret == RVM_SUCCESS);                            
>  
> > 1. My sources are located in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/coda-5.3.3 
> > why /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/coda-5.3.3/coda-src/vol/recovc.cc 
> > We compiled the  whole source code in
> > /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/coda-5.3.3 !
> 
> It is simply not the server you think you are running. My best guess is
> that the one you built is somewhere in /usr/local/sbin, but the one
> actually running is in /usr/sbin. `startserver' is just a dumb script,
> and it uses the default path to run the codasrv. So even when you start
> /usr/local/sbin/startserver, it will happily start /usr/sbin/codasrv.
> 
> > 2. SrvLog seems to be ok!!!
> > 
> > 13:51:08 New SrvLog started at Mon Dec 20 13:51:08 1999
> > 
> > 13:51:08 Resource limit on data size are set to 2147483647
> > 
> > 13:51:08 Server etext 0x80f129a, edata 0x812a880
> > 13:51:08 RvmType is Rvm
> > 13:51:08 Main process doing a LWP_Init()
> > 13:51:08 Main thread just did a RVM_SET_THREAD_DATA
> > 
> > 13:51:08 Setting Rvm Truncate threshhold to 5.  
> 
> ..... There is no Salvaging or Fileserver started message, the server is
> dead in the water.
> > 
> > 3. create your root volume: createvol_rep coda:root E0000100 /vicepa 
> > will fails afterthen !!
> 
> Ofcourse, if there is no server.
> 
> Jan
>