From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 25 03:05:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7AE16A401 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:05:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alvar_4786@yahoo.com) Received: from web32906.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32906.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0099013C43E for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:05:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alvar_4786@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 65612 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Apr 2007 02:38:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=N2poauGddZ/6ZVsBQWYjZhLfe3wtKeq2XOk2sWUATikiPR0V/20l2O+eTb+TKmbImZ2OPQ8LJ+2RA5wHZ8jkBG2brsgdBC8xKivqMIWgT1pLHbROXUvgHQkW2NyVlg9Ve+cDLqkRSlHzyggOA6RyiXW+UaM0bJSUNnIhoY4ULpU= ; Message-ID: <20070425023823.65610.qmail@web32906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: lyjVn5QVM1nfJraHcvHdpm4_8MwXONK87jMveDdLl.KoYXPc92lE92vec5JH70Zb4VO52gY41WbGNxazCrBPWnELDXlz4_bPH8i6hVW3eVrRqFrV6Kyk5IZ7Us19hw-- Received: from [202.84.20.62] by web32906.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:38:23 BST Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:38:23 +0100 (BST) From: Jeff Alvar To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:07:54 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:05:05 -0000 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 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com