[9fans] venti woes with brand new install

[John Soros <sorosj@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone!
I'm trying to configure a new cpu+auth server using the instructions in the wiki, and I've crossed a problem with venti.
Here is what I did:
1, downloaded the sept. 6th iso from plan9 download site
2, installed a fossil+venti system (default setup)
3, followed the wiki instructions to set up a cpu+auth server (compiled my own 9pccpuf kernel with default config)
then I rebooted my computer (luckily set up a menu with options to start the old terminal kernel),
and got venti suicide, here is a screenshot of the crash: http://jsoros.free.fr/CIMG5212.JPG , after this the computer reboots. We did a little debugging with cinap on irc, here is how we did it:
1, copy /386/bin/venti/venti to 9fat
2, boot into the live-cd
3, run /n/9fat/venti -s -c /dev/sdC0/arenas -a 'tcp!127.1!17034' -h 'tcp!127.1!8000'
it suicides here too
4, run acid on the crashed venti, here is the output of acid: http://jsoros.free.fr/CIMG5213.JPG
Thanks for any insite on what could be wrong and what I could do to fix it.

Regards
John