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Date:      29 Dec 2003 10:28:31 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Kai Vermehr <k@eboy.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: halt while booting: recovering vi editor sessions /kv
Message-ID:  <44brpr3aow.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <E5AB0CD1-398C-11D8-8911-000A9569B09E@eboy.com>
References:  <E5AB0CD1-398C-11D8-8911-000A9569B09E@eboy.com>

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Kai Vermehr <k@eboy.com> writes:

> While booting I get the message "recovering vi editor sessions" and
> the booting process is halted for a couple of minutes. I'm new to
> FreeBSD so I don't know where to look. Booting is resumed and some
> time later I get a message that sendmail is starting -- again taking a
> long time ...
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?

The saved sessions are (by default) in "/var/tmp/vi.recover".
If you don't need to recover the sessions, clean the directory out.



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