From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 5:31:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71EBD37B403 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 63936 invoked by uid 100); 22 Jun 2001 09:44:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15155.5003.663240.232972@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:44:43 -0500 To: "Chris Dritsas" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" In-Reply-To: <82323896@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dritsas 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. 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