Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:44:43 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Chris Dritsas" <chrisquestions@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" Message-ID: <15155.5003.663240.232972@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <82323896@toto.iv>
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Chris Dritsas <chrisquestions@hotmail.com> types: > Good Day, > > My system went down during a vi editor session on day (California energy > crisis anyone?). Now, whenever I boot freeBSD, my system hangs: > > starting standard daemons: cron. > Recovering vi editor sessions > > At this point, "Recovering vi editor sessions", my system hangs for some > time. It finally loads and all seems well. > > I searched the system for the vi editor, could not find it to try and remove > it. vi is /usr/bin/vi, among other things. From the sound of things, removing that won't fix the problem. > I checked /stand/sysinstall to try and delete it from their, but I could not > find it in there. > > Any ideas..? It sounds like you've got a lot of vi recovery files that nobody has bothered to claim. Remove the stuff in /var/tmp/vi.recover. Or at least remove the stuff that's old. If there's nothing there, you've got a more serious problem. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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