Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 22:21:12 EDT From: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek) To: hackers@freebsd.org, sef@kithrup.com Subject: Re: Whee, another fun one Message-ID: <9507150221.AA04406@borg.ess.harris.com>
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another good way to give the pkg stuff more work space is with the PKG_TMPDIR environment variable. It works nicely and is almost mandatory for emacs :-) perhaps during the install it would be good to set this since the emacs install must fail for most people. Jim Leppek > From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Fri Jul 14 20:45:18 1995 > Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:45:04 -0700 > From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Whee, another fun one > Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org > > This one is *really* neat. > > I was trying to add emacs, for various reasons. But pkg_add wouldn't let > me, because my /tmp was too small, even after I added MFS to my kernel and a > 30MByte memfs off of /dev/sd0s1b (same as swap). So, I tried using the -t > option; it still didn't work. So then I started debugging it. > > Since I wasn't working on the console, I have no idea what happened, but my > login session suddenly hung. I thought it was just the normal delay I'd > been seeing (and reported last night), but, after a few minutes, I decided > that was pretty unlikely, and took a look at the console. > > It had rebooted (a panic, I assume), and was waiting for me to insert a > bootable floppy -- for some reason, the MBR has disappeared, and the hard > disk is no longer a "bootable disk"! > > So... this is bad. Also, how do I fix it, without reinstalling the whole OS > again? ;) > > Sean. >
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