On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:34:59PM -0500, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> 18:16:14 Getting Root Volume information...
> 18:16:14 Venus starting...
> 18:16:14 CHILD: mount system call failed. Killing parent.
>
> Killed
There might be some more information in /usr/coda/etc/venus.log. But it
is most likely a server problem, so check /vice/srv/SrvLog|SrvErr on the
servers. It could be that the initial rootvolume doesn't exist, or has
the wrong name, or the server hostnames don't resolve correctly, or...
> I am running Coda 5.3.13 on a Redhat 6.2 system (Linux 2.2). Is it
> important that it says "Kernel version ioctl failed"? Why is the
> mount failing? Can someone please help me?
No, at some point we introduced a new ioctl on /dev/cfs0 so that venus
can query the version of the kernel module. If the new ioctl fails, it
simply avoids using some new stuff.
> I also tried to connnect to testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu, and i get the
> following:
...
> 18:20:14 Getting Root Volume information...
> 18:20:29 GetRootVolume: can't get root volume name!
> 18:20:59 GetRootVolume: can't get root volume name!
> -------------------------
>
> As the manual said, I checked /etc/services and it seems ok. There is a
> firewall here, and that could be part of the problem connecting to
> testserver, but it should have no bearing on my own servers.
Make the following change in /etc/coda/venus.conf
- #masquerade=0
+ masquerade=1
This way venus and the codaserver will not use a separate port-pair for
the side-effects and it should get you through the firewall.
Jan
