>>> By the way, theres no venus-setup in this distro...
>> Using debian? venus-setup is just useless, all it would have done has been
>> set up correctly by debconf.
>
> Can you help me out on this one? i removed and installed coda-client
> package. Now it simply refuses to install.
>
> I did a "manual" install from the binaries in the package. all seems
> fine. just the LOG and DATA file are giving me trouble now.
>
> I used rvmutil and create a 20M LOG file and a 16M DATA file.
I never ever did that - it might work, but it would be a lot easier, if 
you removed those two files and ran "venus -init" - it will do everything 
for you.

I might be wrong, but I think that should work. If it doesn't, you need to 
"touch /usr/coda/INIT" - then venus will do for sure.

Regards,
Michael