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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:58:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Walter Kenaston <walterk1@earthlink.net>
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Subject: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
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>Number:         43865
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 09 08:00:03 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Walter Kenaston
>Release:        4.6.2
>Organization:
<none>
>Environment:
FreeBSD 4.6.2 release 0; generic i386 compile
>Description:
     An error in hand-editting /etc/rc.conf - a missing quote character, in this case - caused the OS to be in an unuseable state after reboot.  (The most this ought to cause is an erorr message and an unprocessed configuration keyword.)
>How-To-Repeat:
      Take out the leading quote on one of the string values in /etc/rc.conf.
>Fix:
      Re-installing the OS, don't ever make a mistake in FreeBSD configuration files, or make FreeBSD handle errors in a fail-safe manner.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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