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Subject: Re: halt while booting: recovering vi editor sessions /kv
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Kai Vermehr <k@eboy.com> writes:

> While booting I get the message "recovering vi editor sessions" and
> the booting process is halted for a couple of minutes. I'm new to
> FreeBSD so I don't know where to look. Booting is resumed and some
> time later I get a message that sendmail is starting -- again taking a
> long time ...
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?

The saved sessions are (by default) in "/var/tmp/vi.recover".
If you don't need to recover the sessions, clean the directory out.