buldworld

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:

> Wouter van Rooij wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Yesterday evening I've runned a make buildworld, after a cvsup.
> >Unfortunately my system hang totally tomorrow. That is when the problems began.
> >When I'm booting, the system reboots every time.
> >I think I know why it hangs. It is because of vmmon_up.ko When I load
> >that ko with kldload in single user mode, the system hangs again.
> >So let's delete the file i thought, but it gives: (Logged in as root of course;)
> >rm: /boot/kernel/vmmon_up.ko: Read-only file system
> >ls -l gives:
> >-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  38529 Feb 20 11:48 /boot/kernel/vmmon_up.ko
> >I've tried to fix it with chmod: chmod a+w vmmon_up.ko but it doesn't help.
> >Do you guys have any idea how to fix it?
> >Thanks
> >Wouter van Rooij
> >
> 
> Single-user mode mount the root partition "read-only" and
> does not mount any other partitions.  At the command prompt,
> run "fsck"; if everything is clean, run "mount -a".  Then you will
> have all your /etc/fstab filesystems mounted normally, and
> can perform this operation.

[Or any other rescue operation...]

> I might recommend some action besides "rm" on a kernel
> module, though (mv?).

Even better, change the loader configuration (loader.conf) to not load
the module.

That module is from vmware, and probably wasn't rebuilt when the base
system was, so loading it could cause any variety of problems.