Bug 22694

Summary: submission of new FAQ text on fixing broken startup files
Product: Documentation Reporter: Lowell Gilbert <lowell>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Lowell Gilbert 2000-11-08 16:00:01 UTC 
For people who *read* the FAQ, this is trivial.  
However, people who *search* the FAQ will probably find it helpful.

How-To-Repeat: 
This gets asked regularly these days.
Comment 1 ben freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-11-11 20:31:17 UTC 
lowell@world.std.com wrote:

> +         <question id="mangled-startup-files">
> +           <para>I made a mistake in my startup files, and now the box
> + 	    won't boot: how do I fix my mistake?</para>
> +         </question><answer>
> + 
> +           <para>See the
> + 	    <link linkend="forgot-root-pw">previous question</link>,
> + 	    except edit the startup file in question instead of doing
> + 	    <command>passwd root</command>.</para>
> + 
> +         </answer>

Isn't the "I made a mistake in rc.conf, and now I can't edit it because
the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" question good enough?

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Comment 2 Lowell Gilbert 2000-11-13 00:06:49 UTC 
Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> lowell@world.std.com wrote:
> 
> > +         <question id="mangled-startup-files">
> > +           <para>I made a mistake in my startup files, and now the box
> > + 	    won't boot: how do I fix my mistake?</para>
> > +         </question><answer>
> > + 
> > +           <para>See the
> > + 	    <link linkend="forgot-root-pw">previous question</link>,
> > + 	    except edit the startup file in question instead of doing
> > + 	    <command>passwd root</command>.</para>
> > + 
> > +         </answer>
> 
> Isn't the "I made a mistake in rc.conf, and now I can't edit it because
> the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" question good enough?

One would think.

[Two possible translations: either I'm annoyed that so many people
manage to miss that question, or I had missed it myself.  Note that
those are *not* mutually exclusive.]

Please go ahead and close the PR, although adding "or other startup
files" to the question in, um, question, might be a good idea.

 - Lowell
Comment 3 ben freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-11-15 14:27:13 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Suggested text added to existing question.
Comment 4 csxbcs 2000-11-15 14:29:08 UTC 
Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> [Two possible translations: either I'm annoyed that so many people
> manage to miss that question, or I had missed it myself.  Note that
> those are *not* mutually exclusive.]
> 
> Please go ahead and close the PR, although adding "or other startup
> files" to the question in, um, question, might be a good idea.

Done.

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Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org