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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:11:46 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: very current won't mount /tmp
Message-ID:  <20040415061146.GD4415@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040412195402.19174B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <16507.9094.803648.85615@roam.psg.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040412195402.19174B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
>=20
> > >> very current (08:00gmt the 11th)
> > >> thinkpad t40p
> > >>=20
> > >> make world and kernel
> > >> boot single abuser to do the installworld
> > >>=20
> > >> can mount drives one at a time until i get to /tmp which is
> > >> defined as
> > >>=20
> > >>     md /tmp mfs -s131072,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
> > >>=20
> > >> locks up
> > >>=20
> > >> as installworld has not happened, it should not be the new
> > >> automagic /tmp mfs.  or am i misunderstanding that?
> > >=20
> > > The new auto /tmp creation code should only kick in after you run
> > > mergemaster.  Even then, it shouldn't have any effect in single user
> > > mode because it hasn't been run yet at that point.  If you're being r=
eally
> > > paranoid, you simply verifying that nothing is mounted on /tmp before
> > > trying to mount it yourself should eliminate that from the equation.
> >=20
> > i tried removing md /tmp from fstab and rebooting -sw
> >=20
> > mount -a went fine
> >=20
> > vi locks up immediately
> >=20
> > make installworld locks up immediately
> >=20
> > all this is new and very disturbing
>=20
> Any chance you can get into DDB eitgher using console break or serial
> console break?
>=20
The vi(1) will be shown as blocked.  One now needs to manually feed
/dev/random, while in single-user mode.

Mark, please do something about it in a short term, add it to UPDATING
at least.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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