From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 17 06:27:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20669 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:27:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20664 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:27:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-71.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.71]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA18258 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:27:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA01013 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:27:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901171427.IAA01013@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: boot single with new loader? In-reply-to: Message from Stefan Esser of "Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:54:36 +0100." <19990116235436.B382@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:27:22 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Esser writes: > On 1999-01-11 23:11 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > > Beware of something that can be deadly for a "make installworld". When > > using SU, space freed by "rm" takes a bit more time to be taken into account > > and you can fill "/" or "/usr" up because the space recovered by "install" > > is not yet freed. > > > > It happened to me a few times for "/usr" and one time for "/". Having > > "/bin/sh" with a 0-byte size is not good for booting :-) > > Yes, that forced me to turn off soft-updates for the / file system. > I was lucky not to have tried rebooting the system, since then there > would not have been a chance to invoke a shell (and lots of other > binaries that had not made it to /bin and /sbin) from within /usr/obj ! Maybe something like this was happening to me yesterday. I too have softupdates on root and everything. Rebooted more times yesterday than ever messing with a soundcard and updating kernel. 4 or 5 times /etc/nologin did not get unlinked before the system halted. Forced me to login as root to remove the troublemaker manually. The problem always happened when I issued shutdown as myself (not root) but as a member of group operator. But has now cured itself possibly due to replacing /etc/ login.{conf,access} and /etc/rc* with current versions. This is what / etc/nologin contained altho "shutdown -r now" was the command used: NO LOGINS: System going down at 18:00 -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message