bin/102160: EDITOR and PAGER not set correctly in fixit.profile
Thomas Quinot
thomas at cuivre.fr.eu.org
Wed Aug 16 20:50:20 UTC 2006
>Number: 102160
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: EDITOR and PAGER not set correctly in fixit.profile
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 16 20:50:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Thomas Quinot
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RC i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Thu May 4 13:21:21 CEST 2006 thomas at melamine.cuivre.fr.eu.org:/space/build/obj/space/build/src/RELENG_6/sys/MELAMINE i386
>Description:
src/release/fixit.profile has:
export EDITOR="/mnt2/stand/vi"
export PAGER="/mnt2/stand/more"
but these paths are invalid in the Fixit environment:
/mnt2/stand is a symlink pointing to "/rescue", and there is no
/rescue.
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot disc1.iso.
Enter Fixit shell in CD-ROM mode.
Use disklabel -e <some device>
Observe error message:
disklabel: /mnt2/stand/vi: No such file or directory
>Fix:
For EDITOR, I see at least three possible solutions:
1. Change fixit.profile to set EDITOR to /mnt2/rescue/vi
2. Have sysinstall create a symlink /rescue -> /mnt2/rescue.
3. Change the /stand symlink to point to "rescue" (instead
of "/rescue").
For PAGER, we have an additional issue: there is no "more" and no
"less" either in /mnt2/rescue. We could possibly use
PAGER=/mnt2/usr/bin/more, or else add "more" to the /rescue builtin
utilities.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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