Hi,

since a few days i'm trying to get the coda client to work. I installed 3 
different version of the client starting with 
coda-debug-client-5.3.7-2.i386.rpm. After typing venus at the console i get 
the following:

[root_at_kvz156 coda]# venus

Date: Mon 05/29/2000

01:21:06 /usr/coda/LOG setup for size 0x88008
01:21:06 /usr/coda/DATA initialized at size 0x220020
01:21:06 brain-wiping recoverable store
01:21:06 loading recoverable store
01:21:06 starting VSGDB scan
01:21:06        0 vsg entries in table
01:21:06        0 vsg entries on free-list
01:21:06 starting VDB scan
01:21:06        1 vol entries in table (0 MLEs)
01:21:06        0 vol entries on free-list (0 MLEs)
01:21:07 starting FSDB scan (833, 20000) (25, 75, 4)
01:21:07        0 cache files in table (0 blocks)
01:21:07        833 cache files on free-list
01:21:07 starting HDB scan
01:21:07        0 hdb entries in table
01:21:07        0 hdb entries on free-list
01:21:07 Kernel version ioctl failed (Inappropriate ioctl for device)!
01:21:07 Initial LRDB allocation
01:21:07 Getting Root Volume information...
01:21:08 Venus starting...
Killed

The logfile contains:

[root_at_kvz156 etc]# less venus.log

[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Coda Venus, version 5.3.7
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Logfile initialized with LogLevel = 0 at Mon 
May 29 01:21:06 2000

[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] E StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] L StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] RecovDataSizes: Log = 0x88008, Data = 0x220020
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Recov_AllocateVM: allocated 1000 bytes at 20000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Recov_AllocateVM: allocated 21b000 bytes at 
21000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] BeginRvmTruncate (1, 4312, I)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] cache::EndRvmTruncate
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Recov_DeallocateVM: deallocated 1000 bytes at 
20000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] Recov_DeallocateVM: deallocated 21b000 bytes at 
21000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] BeginRvmFlush (1, 1332, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] EndRvmFlush
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] BeginRvmTruncate (2, 1492, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] cache::EndRvmTruncate
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] BeginRvmFlush (1, 5516, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] EndRvmFlush
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] BeginRvmTruncate (3, 5676, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:06 ] cache::EndRvmTruncate
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] BeginRvmFlush (1, 430448, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] EndRvmFlush
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] BeginRvmTruncate (837, 430608, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] cache::EndRvmTruncate
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] BeginRvmFlush (1, 16808, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] EndRvmFlush
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] BeginRvmTruncate (1, 16968, F)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] cache::EndRvmTruncate
[ X(00) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] E adviceserver::adviceserver: AdviceServer

[ A(18) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] adviceserver::main()

[ H(07) : 0000 : 01:21:07 ] HDBDaemon about to sleep on hdbdaemon_syn

The other 2 installs were
coda-debug-client-5.3.5-1.i386.rpm
coda-debug-client-5.3.6-1.i386.rpm
The last lines of their log files is the same as above.

Futhermore i'm using RH 6.1 and kernel 2.2.14 with an ide-patch for 
onstream tape drives.

Is there somebody who can tell me how to fix this problem. It would be nice 
because i want to use the tapedrive over the network.

Joost