Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:22 -0500 From: "Chris Dritsas" <chrisquestions@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mwm@mired.org Subject: Re: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" Message-ID: <F21Q06uq02IUHPgLWKW00015b6c@hotmail.com>
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Mike, I removed the folder /var/tmp/vi.recover, did a reboot, and it's now all good... System no longer hangs... Good advice... Thanks, --Chris >Chris <chrisquestions@hotmail.com> types: >Good Day, > > My system went down during a vi editor session one day. 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. > >vi is /usr/bin/vi, among other things. From the sound of things, >removing that won't fix the problem. > >I checked /stand/sysinstall to try and delete it from their, but I could >not >find it in there. > >Any ideas..? > >>It sounds like you've got a lot of vi recovery files that nobody has >>bothered to claim. Remove the stuff in /var/tmp/vi.recover. Or at >>least remove the stuff that's old. If there's nothing there, you've >>got a more serious problem. >> >> <mike >>-- >>Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >>Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more >> >>information. _________________________________________________________________ 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
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