I think the problem may be you forgot to do

umount /coda

Good luck

PS To see if the FW is your problem, try to use a sniffer and see what's
happening to your packets.
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Cordiali saluti / Best regards
Andrea Cerrito
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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Ryan M. Lefever [mailto:lefever_at_crhc.uiuc.edu]
> Inviato: venerdi 4 maggio 2001 2.35
> A: CODALIST
> Oggetto: mount system call failing
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new Coda user and I'm having some trouble getting Coda going.  I set
> up 3 Servers and that seemed to go ok.  However, when I try to connect to
> them,
> Venus gave the following:
>
> ---------------------------------
> [root_at_corvette /etc]# venus -init
>
> Date: Thu 05/03/2001
>
> 18:16:13 /usr/coda/LOG size is 548341 bytes
> 18:16:13 /usr/coda/DATA size is 2193364 bytes
> 18:16:13 Initializing RVM data...
> 18:16:13 ...done
> 18:16:13 Loading RVM data
> 18:16:13 starting VDB scan
> 18:16:13        1 volume replicas
> 18:16:13        0 replicated volumes
> 18:16:13        0 CML entries allocated
> 18:16:13        0 CML entries on free-list
> 18:16:13 starting FSDB scan (833, 20000) (25, 75, 4)
> 18:16:13        0 cache files in table (0 blocks)
> 18:16:13        833 cache files on free-list
> 18:16:14 starting HDB scan
> 18:16:14        0 hdb entries in table
> 18:16:14        0 hdb entries on free-list
> 18:16:14 Kernel version ioctl failed.
> 18:16:14 Initial LRDB allocation
> 18:16:14 Getting Root Volume information...
> 18:16:14 Venus starting...
> 18:16:14 CHILD: mount system call failed. Killing parent.
>
> Killed
> ----------------------
>
> I am running Coda 5.3.13 on a Redhat 6.2 system (Linux 2.2).  Is it
> important
> that it says "Kernel version ioctl failed"?  Why is the mount
> failing?  Can
> someone please help me?
>
> I also tried to connnect to testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu, and i get the
> following:
>
> -------------------------
> [root_at_corvette src]# venus -init
>
> Date: Thu 05/03/2001
>
> 18:20:13 /usr/coda/LOG size is 548341 bytes
> 18:20:13 /usr/coda/DATA size is 2193364 bytes
> 18:20:13 Initializing RVM data...
> 18:20:13 ...done
> 18:20:13 Loading RVM data
> 18:20:14 starting VDB scan
> 18:20:14        1 volume replicas
> 18:20:14        0 replicated volumes
> 18:20:14        0 CML entries allocated
> 18:20:14        0 CML entries on free-list
> 18:20:14 starting FSDB scan (833, 20000) (25, 75, 4)
> 18:20:14        0 cache files in table (0 blocks)
> 18:20:14        833 cache files on free-list
> 18:20:14 starting HDB scan
> 18:20:14        0 hdb entries in table
> 18:20:14        0 hdb entries on free-list
> 18:20:14 Kernel version ioctl failed.
> 18:20:14 Initial LRDB allocation
> 18:20:14 Getting Root Volume information...
> 18:20:29 GetRootVolume: can't get root volume name!
> 18:20:59 GetRootVolume: can't get root volume name!
> -------------------------
>
> As the manual said, I checked /etc/services and it seems ok.  There is a
> firewall here, and that could be part of the problem connecting to
> testserver, but it should have no bearing on my own servers.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Ryan
>
>