On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, FSG STUDENT4 Ex Directory wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> > Rdsinit will initialize data and log.
> > This takes a while.
> > rvm_initialize succeeded.
> > Going to initialize data file to zero, could take awhile.
> > done.
> > ?  ERROR: rds_zap_heap RVM_EOFFSET.
> > Error in rdsinit. Exiting.
> 
> Interesting. I had the same problem with Redhat 6.1 and
> Coda 5.3.6. I went back to Coda 5.3.5, because the problem
> doesn't occur there. 
> 
> By the way, I am using seperate disks for the DATA and
> LOG partitions, and for the /vicepa as well.
> 
This sense now. 5.3.6 split rvm & rpc2 into separate shared libraries,
which are probably getting loaded into the address range used by RVM for
its data segment. Changing the rvm start address from 0x20000000 to
0x50000000 or to another free address should help.

Shafeeq