From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 23:23:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617BB37B401 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f5P6N8T19309; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:23:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:23:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Chris Dritsas Subject: RE: booting hangs when "Recovering vi editor sessions" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 A guess is that moving the file in question out of /var/tmp/vi.recover/ would stop it from trying to recover it. You will have to boot in single user, do a mount -rw -a and move or delete the files in /var/tmp/vi.recover/ Anyway that is what I would try /M On 22-Jun-01 Chris Dritsas wrote: > Good Day, > > My system went down during a vi editor session on day (California energy > crisis anyone?). Now, whenever I boot freeBSD, my system hangs: > > starting standard daemons: cron. > Recovering vi editor sessions > > At this point, "Recovering vi editor sessions", my system hangs for some > time. It finally loads and all seems well. > > I searched the system for the vi editor, could not find it to try and remove > it. > > I checked /stand/sysinstall to try and delete it from their, but I could not > find it in there. > > Any ideas..? > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message