> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:28:32PM -0400, Ashwin Krishna Patil wrote:
> > 
> > OK I am running Debian 2.2x.
> > 
> > I am installing the coda server in the following package:
> > 
> > coda-server_5.3.1-1_i386.deb
> 
> Is that one from ftp.debian.org/debian/experimental? Haven't tried it
> myself.

Yes.  I thought I might have better luck with this one. 

> 
> > open_log failed.
> > do_rvm_options failed
> > 15:07:06 rvm_init failed RVM_EIO
> 
> Does the file /vice/srv.conf exists, does it list the rvm log and data
> files, and have those file been successfully created by vice-setup-rvm.
> What are the parameters you gave when running vice-setup-rvm?
> 

I created a 12M log file and a 22M data file.  I checked and the files
were successfully created.



> > I don't get it because I rann vice-setup-rvm and everything went fine.  I
> > also changed the starting address in the file to x5.... instead of x2...
> 
> Sometimes it does, some off-by-one error in rvm was fixed recently
> (after 5.3.1) which occasionally hit. Ofcourse, depending on chosen rvm
> memory size, time of the year and the phase of the moon. In short, it
> was a problem that apparantly existed since day 1, but had never been
> really obvious (failed rvminit once in a while) or reproducable enough
> for anyone to notice.
> 
> Maybe 22M or 130M works.
> 

Possible, although my data file was 22M

> > Any help would be appreciated, because I can't use createvol_rep without a
> > running server, and can't connect with venus without a rootvolume! 
> 
> Correct,
> 
> Jan
>