On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

> Hello Kenneth,
> 
> Saturday, November 18, 2000, 12:54:04 AM, you wrote:
> > I ran into this problem as well.  Doing searching of the kernel source,
> > I found the major device number to be 93.  I guessed at a minor number
> > of 0 and it worked.
> > bash-2.04$ ls -l cfs0
> > crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   93,   0 Nov 14 20:23 cfs0
> 
> > Later, I found the answer in the docs confirming my guess:
> > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/manual/x1050.html
> 
> Creating the device by hand as suggested in the above document did
> work for venus-setup. However, if I try to start venus itself after
> the setup, I still end up with
> 11:18:11 Probably another Venus is running! open failed for /dev/cfs0, exiting

/dev/cfs0 needs to be read/writeable by root at least. If you haven't
already, do a :

chmod 0600 /dev/cfs0 		    

venus-setup should have done this automatically along with creating the
device.

> ps never shows any venus processes...

Venus considers failing to open the kernel->venus device a fatal error,
and thus aborts.  

Shafeeq