Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:18:54 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Praveen Bobba <pbobba1@panam.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20020320211525.R909-100000@hades> In-Reply-To: <09784044E77FD311B7B8009027B0D5DD4E7CCF@exaffairs.coserve.org>
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Praveen Bobba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Unable to boot. It hangs up at recovering vi editor sessions.
Don't be too terse when asking, also try to put a more descriptive subject.
Something like "unable to boot, hang at recovering vi sessions" would be
nice in this case.
But about your question now. You can probably get away by booting in
single user mode, and deleting the files in `/var/tmp/vi.recover'. Without
more information about what is in there, it's hard to guess why it hangs.
If you delete those files, the worst that can happen is lose some changes
that you were making within vi(1) when a crash happened. It's usually safe
enough to assume they were temporary changes, that are less useful than
bringing the machine up again. But that depends on what you were editing
and why. Which I don't know :)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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