From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 18: 6: 0 2002 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 8F48237B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B2E43E3B for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mystic_mac1@mac.com) Received: from smtp-relay03.mac.com (smtp-relay03-en1 [10.13.10.222]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g6313KTQ029390 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:03:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay03.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g6313Fac022873 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 200-15-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net ([24.237.15.200]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GYNEXE00.7CP; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:03:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:03:12 -0800 Subject: Re: Help! Syntax error in rc.conf has made my entire filesystem read only!!!!!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org To: chris@ooc2000.com From: mystic_mac1@mac.com In-Reply-To: <20020703005701.30100.qmail@web21412.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris, Yep, not only have I seen this tragic anomoly, but I had to work through it. This is what I did. When you are asked for the shell, you are going into what I think to be single user read only mode. The way to get out of the mode is to mount you fstab like so: mount -a Which will mount everything in you fstab, once the fstab has been mounted then you can edit your rc.conf file and fix it before rebooting. His Faithful Servant, Mark On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 04:57 PM, Chris wrote: > I was making some changes to rc.conf, and I introduced a syntax error > (I forgot to close quotes on > my ed0= line, configuring my NIC). It'd be easy to fix, but I can't > make any changes whatsover to > any file -- everything I try gets me "Read-Only file system". Also, > during boot time it makes me > enter the path to my shell (bash), and I can't ever logout - every > attempt makes me reenter the > shell. (I guess rc.conf is getting run out logout time too and it's > failing in the same place). > > Has anyone seen this? What do I do???? I just have to make one tiny > change to rc.conf and I'm all > set . . . but how???? > > Thanks, > Chris > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message