Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:00:30 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: very current won't mount /tmp Message-ID: <200404151300.30275.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040415061146.GD4415@ip.net.ua> References: <16507.9094.803648.85615@roam.psg.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040412195402.19174B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040415061146.GD4415@ip.net.ua>
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On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:11 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote: > > > >> very current (08:00gmt the 11th) > > > >> thinkpad t40p > > > >> > > > >> make world and kernel > > > >> boot single abuser to do the installworld > > > >> > > > >> can mount drives one at a time until i get to /tmp which is > > > >> defined as > > > >> > > > >> md /tmp mfs -s131072,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0 > > > >> > > > >> locks up > > > >> > > > >> as installworld has not happened, it should not be the new > > > >> automagic /tmp mfs. or am i misunderstanding that? > > > > > > > > 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 really paranoid, you simply verifying that > > > > nothing is mounted on /tmp before trying to mount it yourself > > > > should eliminate that from the equation. > > > > > > i tried removing md /tmp from fstab and rebooting -sw > > > > > > mount -a went fine > > > > > > vi locks up immediately > > > > > > make installworld locks up immediately > > > > > > all this is new and very disturbing > > > > Any chance you can get into DDB eitgher using console break or > > serial console break? > > 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. > > I think updating UPDATING is a good idea. I tried "feed /dev/random" and it couldn't find "feed". What are we supposed to do to get installworld to work? Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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