From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 18:44:27 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 18:44:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F343A37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA615080; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:44:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com> References: <20001207181808.A317@northernbrewer.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:44:17 -0500 To: Christopher Farley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: moving /tmp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:18 PM -0600 12/7/00, Christopher Farley wrote: >Here's what I did: > ># cd / ># cp tmp /usr ># mv tmp tmp.old ># ln -s /usr/tmp tmp > >After a reboot, I am now unable to run startx. The screen goes >black, the keyboard shuts off... > >How do I begin to clean up my mess?? boot up in single-user mode. remount / rw so you can modify it. (or maybe just shutdown into single user mode). cd / mv tmp tmp.link mv tmp.old tmp shutdown -r now ...that's my guess. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message