Install on Debian Trixie (13)

Alex King <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:57:28 +1200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.coda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've tried to install coda on Debian Trixie, but it hasn't worked well yet.

I'm new to coda but want to play with it.

I've installed the Debian Bookwork (12) packages, from 
http://coda.cs.cmu.edu/coda/:

$ dpkg -l|grep coda
ii  coda-client 8.1.6-1+debian12.0                        amd64        
Client for the Coda distributed file system
ii  coda-common 8.1.6-1+debian12.0                        amd64        
Common libraries for the Coda distributed file system
ii  coda-server 8.1.6-1+debian12.0                        amd64        
Server for the Coda distributed file system
ii  coda-update 8.1.6-1+debian12.0                        amd64        
Server for the Coda distributed file system


I can create volumes, but not mount them.  I don't know if it's my own 
lack of knowledge, or if other stuff is not working:

# volutil getvolumelist
V_BindToServer: binding to host juliet
P/vicepa Hjuliet Tb1e708 F2fddb4
Wp.codadocs.0 I64000001 H64 P/vicepa m0 M0 U2 W64000001 C6a2f1b84 
D6a2f1b84 B0 A0
GetVolumeList finished successfully

# cfs mkmount /coda/project_codadocs p.codadocs
/coda: File exists

# ls -l /coda/
total 1
lrw-r--r-- 1 root nogroup 21 Jun 15 09:12 juliet.king.net.nz -> 
'#@juliet.king.net.nz.'

 From what I understand from cfs mkm, none of my users (codaadmin nor 
alex) have rights to mount anything on /coda:

# cfs la /coda/
       System:AnyUser  rl


I suspect something isn't working right....


So I tried connecting to the test server:

$ ls /coda/testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu
/coda/testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu

$ clog [email protected]
username: [email protected]
Password:

$ ls -l /coda/testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu
lrw-r--r-- 1 root nogroup 29 Jun 15 19:50 
/coda/testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu -> '#@testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu.'


In /var/log/coda/venus.log I'm getting a bunch of:

[ W(13) : 0000 : 19:52:07 ] fsobj::TryToCover: 
vdb::Get(#@testserver.coda.cs.cmu.edu.) failed (110)


I also saw gnutls cert check errors, in venus.err:

setuptls:815 gnutls_session_get_verify_cert_status() --> 66 ((unknown 
error code))
setuptls:822 gnutls_handshake(128.2.212.163) --> -348 (Error in the 
certificate verification.)


Any ideas?


Perhaps I should go back and try it on a fresh install of Debian 12 
Bookworm?  Perhaps something to do with this later version of gnutls in 
Debian 13?


Thanks,
Alex