I re-initialized RVM as I specified in my correction message.  after an
authmon, two updatemons and a startserver, I still get this:

11:17:41 New SrvLog started at Thu Apr 16 11:17:41 1998

11:17:41 Resource limit on data size are set to 2147483647

11:17:41 Server etext 0x8159be4, edata 0x81b04b0
11:17:41 RvmType is Rvm
11:17:41 Main process doing a LWP_Init()
11:17:41 Main thread just did a RVM_SET_THREAD_DATA

Partition /vicepa: inodes in use: 0, total: 262144.
11:17:41 Partition /vicepa: 972912 available size (1K blocks, minfree=1%), 96873
9 free blocks.
11:17:41 Setting Rvm Truncate threshhold to 5.

11:17:45 rds_load_heap error RVM_ENOT_MAPPED
11:17:45 ****** FILE SERVER INTERRUPTED BY SIGNAL 11 ******
11:17:45 ****** Aborting outstanding transactions, stand by...
11:17:45 Uncommitted transactions: 0
11:17:45 Uncommitted transactions: 0
11:17:45 Becoming a zombie now ........
11:17:45 You may use gdb to attach to 5935

(gdb) where
#0  0x1bb9d8 in sigsuspend ()
#1  0x1e5d88 in __DTOR_END__ ()
#2  0xc0de0001 in ?? ()
#3  0x806bbad in main (argc=9, argv=0xbffff99c) at srv.cc:489
#4  0x804a447 in _start ()
(gdb) up
#1  0x1e5d88 in __DTOR_END__ ()
(gdb) 
#2  0xc0de0001 in ?? ()
(gdb) 
#3  0x806bbad in main (argc=9, argv=0xbffff99c) at srv.cc:489
489         InitializeServerRVM(NULL, "codaserver"); 

  I think this is going to turn into an FAQ.

-- 
Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
           http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/