Thanks a lot Jan and Ivan, I really appreciate your help!
I tried the things you have told me (running nscd and try an cfs mkm on
/coda/myrealm.com/etc etc). Actually, it doesn't work, but I see different
messages trying to start venus (it doesn't start by now).
Below, I send you the display error of venus to get your opinion.
Thanks again!

Date: Mon 11/17/2003

14:01:38 Coda Venus, version 6.0.3

14:01:38 /usr/coda/LOG size is 1097728 bytes
14:01:39 /usr/coda/DATA size is 4385684 bytes
14:01:39 Loading RVM data
14:01:39 Last init was Mon Nov 17 11:06:24 2003
14:01:39 Last shutdown was dirty
14:01:39 Starting RealmDB scan
14:01:39        Found 1 realms
14:01:39 starting VDB scan
14:01:39        2 volume replicas
14:01:39        0 replicated volumes
14:01:39        0 CML entries allocated
14:01:39        0 CML entries on free-list
14:01:39 starting FSDB scan (1666, 40000) (25, 75, 4)
14:01:39        1 cache files in table (0 blocks)
14:01:39        1665 cache files on free-list
14:01:39 starting HDB scan
14:01:39        0 hdb entries in table
14:01:39        0 hdb entries on free-list
14:01:39 Mounting root volume...
14:01:39 CHILD: mount system call failed. Killing parent.

> Hmm, the two of you seem to be having fun,
>
> Lucas's mail just got rejected by codalist because the headers were
> corrupted, and it also keeps rejecting Ivan's mails because the account
> he uses isn't subscribed.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:59:28PM -0500, Ivan Popov wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Lucas wrote:
>> > But something happens in the directory, cause if I do an ls -a of
>> > /coda/myrealm, I see the hard link, but in red, like when the symbolic
>> > link is broken.
>>
>> This is a different issue - your client is not finding the rootvolume
>> for
>> the realm.
>> I think very recently Jan fixed a bug that showed up in that way.
>
> Correct, but that was only fixing a bug introduced 2 weeks ago in CVS.
>
> On the other hand there is a libc/resolver problem on RedHat 9, maybe
> other systems as well. According to the manpage, using anything like
> res_query or res_search will implicitly initialize the resolver. However
> on RedHat 9 this doesn't happen (correctly) and in fact leaves
> libresolve in a badly configured state.
>
> What I noticed was that it would only send queries to a locally running
> nameserver cache daemon and never actually try to talk to the configured
> DNS servers. The solution on that particular machine was to simply start
> nscd as root, and it will run in the background and handle the name
> lookups correctly.
>
> So as root, start the 'nscd' binary and venus might just start working
> again.
>
> Jan
>
>