From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 8:10:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f21.law15.hotmail.com [64.4.23.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2B237B406 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisquestions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:10:22 -0700 Received: from 63.205.92.242 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:10:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.205.92.242] From: "Chris Dritsas" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mwm@mired.org Subject: Re: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:22 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2001 15:10:22.0493 (UTC) FILETIME=[7535BCD0:01C0FB2D] 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 Mike, I removed the folder /var/tmp/vi.recover, did a reboot, and it's now all good... System no longer hangs... Good advice... Thanks, --Chris >Chris types: >Good Day, > > My system went down during a vi editor session one day. 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 Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >>Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more >> >>information. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message