On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:26:45AM -0700, Craig Hughes wrote:
> I've set up a coda server/SCM on baal.panop.com (204.247.162.10) and can
> connect to it using venus on baal.
> 
> Now, I have a laptop pookah.panop.com (204.247.162.8 when it's on LAN,
> varying IP with dialup), and this machine can successfully connect to the
> testserver.  But when I venus-setup baal.panop.com 20000 on pookah, then try
> to start venus, I get:
> 
> Coda Venus, version 5.2.7
...
> 11:14:25 Initial LRDB allocation
> 11:14:25 Getting Root Volume information...

Venus talks to the server here to get information about /coda.

> 11:14:26 Venus starting...

Venus now forks a child to mount /coda.

> <venus process dies>

The child has killed it's parent (such a cruel world), because the mount
syscall returned a failure.

Did you `umount /coda'? For some reason Venus cannot do that by itself,
and it cannot reattach to an existing mount.

Jan