halt while booting: recovering vi editor sessions /kv

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kai Vermehr <k at eboy.com> writes:

> 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.