Why we need to run gdb for the first time?  Because there is a BAD bug
somewhere.  I _think_ that some of our thread scheduling stuff isn't
working right -- and I'm on my way to have a 50 line C program produce
similar trouble. 

- Peter -

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Bradley Marshall wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> > I know this is a terrible bug but to get your server off the ground you
> > need to do:
> > 
> > gdb /usr/sbin/srv
> > 
> > run -rvm /var/log/rvm.log /var/log/rvm.data 20480000
> > 
> > You will see Fileserver started in your SrvLog (/vice/srv). Then type
> > 
> > volutil shutdown
> > 
> > Quit gdb.
> > 
> > From here on, startserver will work. We don't know the cause of this
> > problem but are working on it.
> 
> That did it!  Great, thanks heaps!  Now to get the client running. :)
> 
> Now I'm curious, why do you need to run gdb the first time?  Does it
> send some signal to the process?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
> -- 
> Bradley Marshall
> Sysadmin
> Plugged In Software
>