The problem was that my server has 2 IP addresses (on different subnets).
The client was on subnet B and the server reported its IP address as being
on subnet A, which is not routable for the client. 

I can fix the problem by explicitly setting the IP address of the server in
the server config file.

Regards
Vijay

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Harkes [mailto:jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:03 AM
To: codalist_at_TELEMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Venus startup problems


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:56:13AM -0700, Tewari, Vijay wrote:
> I am attempting start Venus and get the following error
> 
> Venus Starting
> CHILD: mount system call failed. Killing parent
> 
> Not sure what the problem is.

What is failing is the mount(something on /coda) system call. Most likely
/coda didn't get unmounted the last time venus was shutdown.

Like Steffen said in his mail, there are multiple possible reasons for the
umount to fail. You can try "umount /coda", if that fails any of the causes
he mentions could be the reason umount is failing.

lsof | grep /coda, and kill are your friends here.

Jan