From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 04:20:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AA837B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 04:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1481343FA3 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 04:20:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h46BK3w0082094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:20:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h46BJxam082080; Tue, 6 May 2003 12:19:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:19:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: CARTER Anthony Message-ID: <20030506111959.GF95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , CARTER Anthony , Eduardo Viruena Silva , Gary and El Byrnes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030506100549.GC95479@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200305061210.06751.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vKFfOv5t3oGVpiF+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305061210.06751.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-35.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva cc: Gary and El Byrnes cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Window problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 11:20:22 -0000 --vKFfOv5t3oGVpiF+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:10:06PM +0200, CARTER Anthony wrote: > Strange then...Whenever I have booted into single user mode I have been u= nable=20 > to write to the root partition, even after a mount -a...even with ESC w!q= in=20 > vi...Maybe I did something wrong...Would it possibly be likely that mount= -a=20 > doesn't report back that / needs fscking first? Everytime I have had to d= o=20 > this I needed to fsck root first... Yes --- that's exactly it. The instruction in the handbook to run: fsck -p before you try mounting anything from single user mode is very good advice. If you had to shutdown your system uncleanly (ie. by any means other than running 'shutdown -h' or 'shutdown -p' or 'shutdown -r' and having the system come down smoothly without further intervention) then you will definitely need to run fsck. Otherwise, you should still run it to be on the safe side, but you might get away without. Once you've fsck'd, you can then run 'mount -a' and 'swapon -a' as previously described. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --vKFfOv5t3oGVpiF+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+t5pfdtESqEQa7a0RArTxAJ4hbwyf6WxYTbV2Z+M7R4qNDjO58wCfeb48 SW5ynNzDV+Dz61/wpPaYmkY= =LLIa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vKFfOv5t3oGVpiF+--