very current won't mount /tmp

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote:

> >> very current (08:00gmt the 11th)
> >> thinkpad t40p
> >> 
> >> make world and kernel
> >> boot single abuser to do the installworld
> >> 
> >> can mount drives one at a time until i get to /tmp which is
> >> defined as
> >> 
> >>     md /tmp mfs -s131072,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
> >> 
> >> locks up
> >> 
> >> as installworld has not happened, it should not be the new
> >> automagic /tmp mfs.  or am i misunderstanding that?
> > 
> > The new auto /tmp creation code should only kick in after you run
> > mergemaster.  Even then, it shouldn't have any effect in single user
> > mode because it hasn't been run yet at that point.  If you're being really
> > paranoid, you simply verifying that nothing is mounted on /tmp before
> > trying to mount it yourself should eliminate that from the equation.
> 
> i tried removing md /tmp from fstab and rebooting -sw
> 
> mount -a went fine
> 
> vi locks up immediately
> 
> make installworld locks up immediately
> 
> all this is new and very disturbing

Any chance you can get into DDB eitgher using console break or serial
console break?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research