On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:41:52AM +0100, Nuno Tavares wrote:
> Problem #1:
> # rpm -ivh RPMS/coda-client-6.0.5-1.i386.rpm
> Preparing...       ########################################### [100%]
>    1:coda-client   ########################################### [100%]
> venus-setupCreating /usr/coda/spool, mode 755 /usr/sbin/venus-setup: line
> 156: syntax error near unexpected token `else' /usr/sbin/venus-setup: line
> 156: `    else'
> 
> Solution: miswritten line 153 missed "; then" in the "if" statement

Why did you build 6.0.5 when 6.0.6 that has this fixed was released a
couple of weeks ago?

Oh right, the package name is coda-debug-6.0.6-1.src.rpm, the -debug-
part of the name simply indicates that we don't strip the binaries
before packaging them up in the hope that the symbols will be useful
when a client or server crashes for unknown reasons.

> Problem 2: after venus-setup:
> Date: Wed 05/26/2004
...
> 04:38:47 WorkerInit: Version Skew with kernel! Get a newer kernel!
> 04:38:47 WorkerInit: Kernel version is 2

There are 2 solutions,

  - Either build a coda.o module for your 2.4 kernel from the
    linux-coda-6.0.0.tgz package (which Niraj mentioned)

  - OR, use a Linux-2.6.x kernel.

Build instructions for 2.4 modules are in the README file in the
linux-coda package, but here is a quick summary.

    make config
	This checks your kernel version and tries to figure out with
	what options your kernel was build, SMP/module versions/etc.
	We need to know these things otherwise the module will refuse to
	load (or worse crash the kernel).

    make coda.o
	If the configuration was successful, this should build a coda.o
	module in the linux-2.4 subdirectory.

    make install
	This _tries_ to copy the coda.o module to the right place in
	/lib/modules.

    Then you probably want to run 'depmod -a', which updates the module
    loader dependency files, and if you previously tried to run the Coda
    client it is quite likely that you need to remove the old kernel
    module with 'rmmod coda'.

If after all this venus still doesn't run, try to load the module by
hand, because that way we see any errors that might be preventing the
new module.

    rmmod coda
    insmod [path to linux-coda-6.0.0]/linux-2.4/coda.o

Ofcourse in some cases upgrading to a 2.6 kernel is easier, because the
Coda 5.0->6.0 realms related changes are already merged.

Jan