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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:17:26 +0900
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: very current won't mount /tmp
Message-ID:  <16507.9094.803648.85615@roam.psg.com>
References:  <16505.6623.99276.241321@roam.psg.com> <20040412210200.GB5340@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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>> very current (08:00gmt the 11th)
>> thinkpad t40p
>> 
>> make world and kernel
>> boot single abuser to do the installworld
>> 
>> can mount drives one at a time until i get to /tmp which is
>> defined as
>> 
>>     md /tmp mfs -s131072,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
>> 
>> locks up
>> 
>> as installworld has not happened, it should not be the new
>> automagic /tmp mfs.  or am i misunderstanding that?
> 
> The new auto /tmp creation code should only kick in after you run
> mergemaster.  Even then, it shouldn't have any effect in single user
> mode because it hasn't been run yet at that point.  If you're being really
> paranoid, you simply verifying that nothing is mounted on /tmp before
> trying to mount it yourself should eliminate that from the equation.

i tried removing md /tmp from fstab and rebooting -sw

mount -a went fine

vi locks up immediately

make installworld locks up immediately

all this is new and very disturbing

randy



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