A client will not start without an ethernet interface.   I think your
setup should work when eth0 gets going.

Peter


On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> 
> I'm having trouble with coda installation - any thoughts?
> 
> I am trying a coda installation on a freshly created RedHat linux 5.1
> system, attempting to put the server and client on the same machine.
> The server installation went fine, as far as I can tell.  It involved
> adding some partitions, installing some RPMs, answering some questions
> from vice-setup; nothing seemed alarming, startserver seemed happy,
> assorted Coda daemons are running. For all I know, I have a working
> SCM Coda server.
> 
> The client, however, is a different story. I installed all the RPMs,
> then grabbed the stock 2.1.120 kernel. I compiled the kernel with Coda
> support enabled.  (make dep; make clean; make zImage; make modules;
> make modules_install) and made a bootdisk (mkbootdisk 2.1.120) for
> booting into the development kernel. Then I ran the venus-setup
> (venus-setup localhost 40000)
> 
> One thing to note is that I only have the localhost interface running
> (lo) as I am not sure how to get my eth:0 interface working under
> 2.1.120 quite yet. Still, pinging localhost works fine.
> 
> So far, so good. Until this:
> 
> % venus -init &
> coda_psdev_write: downcall, no SB!
> Just mapped in region 20000000,4096)
> Just mapped in region 21000000,4481024)
> 
> % cat /usr/coda/etc/vstab
> /coda:/dev/cfs0:localhost:/usr/coda/venus.cache:40000:1
> 
> % cat /usr/coda/etc/console
> Coda Venus, version 4.6 (28)
> 
> Date: Wed 09/09/98
> 
> 19:01:34 /usr/coda/LOG initialized at size 0x112f60
> 19:01:34 /usr/coda/DATA initialized at size 0x44bd80
> 19:01:34 brain-wiping recoverable store
> 19:01:35 loading recoverable store
> 19:01:35 fatal error -- CommInit RPC2_Init failed
> 19:01:35 Fatal Signal (11); pid 462 becoming zombie...
> 19:01:25 You may use gdb to attach to 462
> 
> % ls /coda
> NOT_REALLY_CODA
> 
> 
> 
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