On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:36:41AM +0000, Claudio Di-Martino wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I recently built coda 5.2.3 on a slackware 2.2.9 kernel.
> > After some fiddling to get it compiled I managed to install it and
> > configure the coda server and client.
> 
> Does slackware have glibc yet? How much fiddling was necessary?

erm... no glibc... but non really much fiddling. Simply adding a
single #include in a couple of files.

> I haven't seen it yet, but Shafeeq tells me he has seen it once or
> twice when the client crashed and went into some endless loop. Any
> info at the end of either /usr/coda/etc/console or
> /usr/coda/venus.cache/venus.log?

nothing in the console file.
Here's venus.log:

[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] Coda Venus, version 5.2.3
[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] LOGFILE initialized with LogLevel = 0 at Wed
Jun 23 11:02:31 1999

[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] ProfInit(): profiling is broken; fix it!
[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] E StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] L StatsInit()
[ X(00) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] E adviceserver::adviceserver: AdviceServer    

[ A(13) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] adviceserver::main()

[ H(07) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] HDBDaemon about to sleep on hdbdaemon_sync

[ W(15) : 0000 : 11:02:31 ] FidToNodeid: called for volume root
(7f000005)!!!

[ D(02) : 0000 : 11:02:36 ] NotifyUserOfServerBandwidthEvent

[ H(07) : 0000 : 11:07:31 ] HDBDaemon just woke up

[ H(07) : 0001 : 11:07:31 ] HDBDaemon about to sleep on hdbdaemon_sync

[ D(02) : 0069 : 11:11:41 ] NotifyUserOfServerBandwidthEvent

[ W(15) : 0000 : 11:12:01 ] Cachefile::SetLength 512

[ H(07) : 0001 : 11:12:31 ] HDBDaemon just woke up
[ H(07) : 0001 : 11:16:36 ] TERM: Venus exiting

exactly after the HDBDaemon started for the second time venus started
looping using all free CPU time and the /coda filesystem become
unresponsive. Strace showed venus was endlessly opening and closing
/etc/passwd ...

> Jan

Ciao!!!

Claudio Di Martino