Hi,

> I think you can ignore this message, it also appear in my kernel
> message.  I guess it just indicates that Venus was trying to make
> a downcall too early (before /coda was mounted ?).
> 
> Venus take some time to start up, so wait for a while and see
> what is shown by "ls /coda" ?

I've waited for about 10 - 15 mins, with no sucess..

> Also, Coda has two logs which you can monitor the progress and
> have a better idea of what is happening.  I always use
> 
>   tail -f /usr/coda/etc/console

It seems to be repeating:
09:20:43 GetRootVolume: can't get root volume name!
every minute or so..

>   tail -f /usr/coda/venus.cache/venus.log
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:16 ] Coda Venus, version 4.1 (28)
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:16 ] LOGFILE initialized with LogLevel = 0 at Thu
Jun 11 08:57:16 1998

[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:17 ] ProfInit(): profiling is broken; fix it!
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:17 ] E StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:17 ] L StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:17 ] RecovDataSizes: Log = 0x82411, Data =
0x209044
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:18 ] Recov_AllocateVM: allocated 1000 bytes at
20000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:18 ] Recov_AllocateVM: allocated 204000 bytes at
21000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:18 ] Recov_DeallocateVM: deallocated 1000 bytes
at 20000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:18 ] Recov_DeallocateVM: deallocated 204000 bytes
at 21000000
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:24 ] E adviceserver::adviceserver: AdviceServer
[ A(13) : 0000 : 08:57:24 ] adviceserver::main()
[ H(07) : 0000 : 08:57:25 ] HDBDaemon about to sleep on hdbdaemon_sync
[ X(00) : 0000 : 08:57:39 ] NotifyUserOfServerDownEvent

However, there is one thing I just realised that could be stopping it
from working - I'm behind ip masquerading.  Does coda work in this
situation?  The logs seem to be indicating not.

Brad
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Bradley Marshall
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