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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: Suspend caused trouble
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Hi :)
>
> today I tried suspend for the first time. While I was off I had an idea,
> how to fix an issue for my install. When I was home again, I wanted to
> start FreeBSD, but now I've got an additional problem.
>
> It always starts with the GRUB menu and what ever I do, it ends in
> single user mode, with
>
> "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
>
> I'm using Xfce, but GNOME is installed too. The display manager is GDM.
>
> Until now I didn't read much and I didn't try to switch to the user,
> after a mount -a and then to start GDM or X.
>
> Perhaps this is a known issue. How can I start a Xfce session?

Fix the filesystems and boot normally.  In single user mode:

# fsck -tufs -y
# exit