On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ioannis wrote:

> 
> 
> Venus is killed as soon as it starts and  venus.log was not
> generated to show what is wrong. Having struggled enough this weekend 
> to get venus going I must seek your help. 

Not too surprising there is no log, because the error is because venus
could not create its logfile :)

> Kernel/User netlink socket support is not enabled in the kernel,
> would this make a difference?

Coda shouldn't need this for anything.

> (By the way: When I do a "cmon testserver.cs.cmu.edu:100" the reply is
> "testserver.cs.cmu.edu is not a valid server" which also
> globbles (and changes) the term settings of my terminal. Well, once
> I can get venus to start I will probably have to deal with this next.)

It is testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu
cmon is a fairly simpleminded curses application, it is quite possible it
does something wrong when exiting. 

> Coda Venus, version 5.3.7
> coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB!
> 
> Date: Mon 05/29/2000
> 
> 17:52:44 LogInit failed
> 
> [2]+  Exit 255                /usr/sbin/venus

Venus is unable to create its logfile. 
What is the logfile set to in /etc/coda/venus.conf ? (the default is
/usr/coda/etc/venus.log) and what is in /usr/coda/etc/vstab ? You may want
to make sure you can write a file in that location, too. 

Good luck, 
Shafeeq