From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 15:21:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F7037B436 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:19:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b137.otenet.gr [212.205.244.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNJhxY016202; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:44 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2KNIw5X000929; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:19:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2KJIsqt000955; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:18:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:18:54 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas X-X-Sender: charon@hades To: Praveen Bobba Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <09784044E77FD311B7B8009027B0D5DD4E7CCF@exaffairs.coserve.org> Message-ID: <20020320211525.R909-100000@hades> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message