Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:23:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Chris Dritsas <chrisquestions@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" Message-ID: <XFMail.010625082330.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <F230vZ9aZ1i6bdVJWrG00000a7a@hotmail.com>
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A guess is that moving the file in question out of /var/tmp/vi.recover/ would stop it from trying to recover it. You will have to boot in single user, do a mount -rw -a and move or delete the files in /var/tmp/vi.recover/ Anyway that is what I would try /M On 22-Jun-01 Chris Dritsas wrote: > 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. > > I checked /stand/sysinstall to try and delete it from their, but I could not > find it in there. > > Any ideas..? > _________________________________________________________________ > 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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