Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:58:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Kenaston <walterk1@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/43865: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly Message-ID: <200210091458.g99EwkGv077667@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 43865
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: unterminated string in rc.conf leaves system unuseable / disk readonly
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 09 08:00:03 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Walter Kenaston
>Release: 4.6.2
>Organization:
<none>
>Environment:
FreeBSD 4.6.2 release 0; generic i386 compile
>Description:
An error in hand-editting /etc/rc.conf - a missing quote character, in this case - caused the OS to be in an unuseable state after reboot. (The most this ought to cause is an erorr message and an unprocessed configuration keyword.)
>How-To-Repeat:
Take out the leading quote on one of the string values in /etc/rc.conf.
>Fix:
Re-installing the OS, don't ever make a mistake in FreeBSD configuration files, or make FreeBSD handle errors in a fail-safe manner.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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