/coda has never been mounted in the first place. But yes, I did try that. I've rebooted the machine, rebooted both machines, clean-reinstalled everything, etc, etc. No fix.
C
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Harkes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 11:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Client server same machine OK, distant client not OK
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:26:45AM -0700, Craig Hughes wrote:
> > I've set up a coda server/SCM on baal.panop.com
> (204.247.162.10) and can
> > connect to it using venus on baal.
> >
> > Now, I have a laptop pookah.panop.com (204.247.162.8 when
> it's on LAN,
> > varying IP with dialup), and this machine can successfully
> connect to the
> > testserver. But when I venus-setup baal.panop.com 20000 on
> pookah, then try
> > to start venus, I get:
> >
> > Coda Venus, version 5.2.7
> ...
> > 11:14:25 Initial LRDB allocation
> > 11:14:25 Getting Root Volume information...
>
> Venus talks to the server here to get information about /coda.
>
> > 11:14:26 Venus starting...
>
> Venus now forks a child to mount /coda.
>
> > <venus process dies>
>
> The child has killed it's parent (such a cruel world),
> because the mount
> syscall returned a failure.
>
> Did you `umount /coda'? For some reason Venus cannot do that
> by itself,
> and it cannot reattach to an existing mount.
>
> Jan
>
