Re: very current won't mount /tmp

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 April 2004 11:11 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > The vi(1) will be shown as blocked.  One now needs to manually feed
> > /dev/random, while in single-user mode.
> >
> > Mark, please do something about it in a short term, add it to
> > UPDATING at least.
> >
> I think updating UPDATING is a good idea. I tried "feed /dev/random" and 
> it couldn't find "feed". What are we supposed to do to get installworld 
> to work?

Here's a possiably UPDATING entry, how's it look?

20040409:
	Due to changes in the the Yarrow initialization process,
	/dev/random needs to be feed before operations requiring
	temp files can succeed in single user mode.  This includes
	running "make installworld". /dev/random can be feed by running
	"/etc/rc.d/initrandom start" or with 20040315 source by running
	"/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom".

Appropriate entries also need to be added to the build instructions.

-- Brooks

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