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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:38:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jeff Alvar <alvar_4786@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   (no subject)
Message-ID:  <20070425023823.65610.qmail@web32906.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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hello,


 I am a new to  freebsd i encouterd same error below "recovering vi editor session"  and the system halted. Is there a way to boot it again so ican remove the /var/tmp/ vi.recover  I need to clean it so it wont hang again..




> 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.

thanks
jeff

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