Coda File System

Re: Diskless Client, root in ramdisk

From: Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:41:19 -0500
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Jean-Sebastien Gagnon wrote:
> I'm currently trying to get coda to work on a diskless client
> the root is /dev/ram0
> 
> I'm using venus-setup :
> venus-setup pc5 20000
> 
> and then venus:
> venus
> 
> 
> Coda Venus, version 5.3.5
> Cannot read configuration file '/etc/coda/venus.conf', will use default values.
>  
> Date: Tue 01/31/1905
>  
> 06:33:55 /usr/coda/LOG setup for size 0x87cc7
> 06:33:55 /usr/coda/DATA initialized at size 0x21f31c
> 06:33:55 brain-wiping recoverable store
> 06:33:55 fatal error -- Recov_CreateSeg: rvm_create_segment failed (222)
> 06:33:55 Fatal Signal (11); pid 124 becoming a zombie...
> 06:33:55 You may use gdb to attach to 124 
> 
> anyone have an idea of the problem?

I looked at the code of rvm_create_segment, and I can't tell exactly
where it fails (the errorcode is ETID, bad rvm transaction identifier).
I'm puzzled, never seen this happen.

Jan
Received on 2000-03-07 16:43:47