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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:31:07 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <harto000@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: System hung 
Message-ID:  <199609101831.LAA19249@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Sep 1996 20:13:02 %2B0200." <3235AFAE.36B5@trudi.zdv.uni-mainz.de> 

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>Dear Sirs.
>I administer a FreeBSD 2.1.0 Pentium PC and recovered a horrible
>problem. I was changing a row in /etc/exports. When I rebooted our
>Server, the system goes into a "sleep" state when it reaches the
>script-line where the mountd has to export several directories for the
>PC area.
>
>I have no chance to break and it seems horrible to me that there is no
>possibility in entering the system without installing it from new.
>
>Well, if you have any idea how to come up again, please email me!

   It sounds like it can't resolve the machine name(s) in the exports list.
You might try typing ctrl-C once or twice. If that doesn't work, you could
boot with "-s" for single user, then 'mount -a' to mount your filesystems,
and then edit /etc/exports.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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