From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 17:38:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1CB16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:38:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A0D43D39 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:38:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:38:45 -0600 Message-ID: <421B6E1A.9060403@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:38:34 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wouter van Rooij References: <7603e5d805022207447700b61c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7603e5d805022207447700b61c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Feb 2005 17:38:46.0485 (UTC) FILETIME=[5C59D850:01C51905] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buldworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:38:43 -0000 Wouter van Rooij wrote: >Hi all, > >Yesterday evening I've runned a make buildworld, after a cvsup. >Unfortunately my system hang totally tomorrow. That is when the problems began. >When I'm booting, the system reboots every time. >I think I know why it hangs. It is because of vmmon_up.ko When I load >that ko with kldload in single user mode, the system hangs again. >So let's delete the file i thought, but it gives: (Logged in as root of course;) >rm: /boot/kernel/vmmon_up.ko: Read-only file system >ls -l gives: >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 38529 Feb 20 11:48 /boot/kernel/vmmon_up.ko >I've tried to fix it with chmod: chmod a+w vmmon_up.ko but it doesn't help. >Do you guys have any idea how to fix it? >Thanks >Wouter van Rooij > > Single-user mode mount the root partition "read-only" and does not mount any other partitions. At the command prompt, run "fsck"; if everything is clean, run "mount -a". Then you will have all your /etc/fstab filesystems mounted normally, and can perform this operation. I might recommend some action besides "rm" on a kernel module, though (mv?). Kevin Kinsey