NetBSD Problem Report #41808

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From: wlgivens@gmail.com
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Subject: 'ed' doesn't work!
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>Number:         41808
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       'ed' doesn't work!
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 04 00:10:00 +0000 2009
>Closed-Date:    Tue Aug 04 06:15:47 +0000 2009
>Last-Modified:  Tue Aug 04 06:15:47 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Will L G
>Release:        5.0.1
>Organization:
na
>Environment:
can't run 'uname -a'... it's NOT running! 
Alpha UP1500
GeForce 6200
2GB ram
2x74GB Fujitsu

>Description:
when booted in SUM (single user mode) and you attempt to run 'ed' it does NOTHING! I attempted to edit rc.conf and found that little bug-a-boo out... Use 'vi' you say? Well that shit doesn't work as well! You can view the file, even save it, but you CAN'T edit it!

With 'ed' I ran the following command:
ed 's,rc_configured=NO/rc_configured=YES/g' rc.conf

*not certain if the last bracket was there, I copied DIRECTLY from the NetBSD FAQ and used different variations, NONE worked*

When I mounted / sed worked fine:
sed -i 's/rc.configured=NO/rc.configured=YES/g' rc.conf
>How-To-Repeat:
simply call on 'ed'!
>Fix:
Use Gentoo ;-)

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/41808: 'ed' doesn't work!
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:51:26 -0400

 On Tue,  4 Aug 2009 00:10:00 +0000 (UTC)
 wlgivens@gmail.com wrote:

 > >Description:
 > when booted in SUM (single user mode) and you attempt to run 'ed' it does NOTHING! I attempted to edit rc.conf and found that little bug-a-boo out... Use 'vi' you say? Well that shit doesn't work as well! You can view the file, even save it, but you CAN'T edit it!

 Did you mount / as well as made sure there's a writable /tmp/
 and/or /var/tmp/?  Then ex/vi normally should work, possibly ed as well.

 > Use Gentoo ;-)

 No thanks :)
 -- 
 Matt

From: "Will L Givens" <wlgivens@gmail.com>
To: <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc: 
Subject: RE: port-alpha/41808: 'ed' doesn't work!
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:28:10 -0500

 I couldn't get 'ed' to work at all, I tried several times ever when I was in
 'multi user mode' and  had everything installed and up and running. I
 installed several packages (lynx, xserver, wget, apache, samba, etc.). I
 have to reinstall it again, I had a nasty crash while copying some files and
 after running fsck_ffs terminal ttyE1 stopped working.

 I think one of my drives might be going out but it's hard to say, I've never
 received a "waiting for pack to spin up" error before and the drives aren't
 that old. In fact, the UP1500 motherboard/cpu I bought new-in-box. The
 company I purchased them from are in Japan and they had a couple of hundred
 UP1500 for sale... they were misplaced inventory. My drives are about  a
 year old. Anywho, I installed another scsi drive for good measure... Will L
 G

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Matthew Mondor [mailto:mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net] 
 Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 07:55
 To: port-alpha-maintainer@netbsd.org; gnats-admin@netbsd.org;
 netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org; wlgivens@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: port-alpha/41808: 'ed' doesn't work!

 The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/41808; it has been noted by
 GNATS.

 From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net>
 To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 Cc: 
 Subject: Re: port-alpha/41808: 'ed' doesn't work!
 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:51:26 -0400

  On Tue,  4 Aug 2009 00:10:00 +0000 (UTC)
  wlgivens@gmail.com wrote:

  > >Description:
  > when booted in SUM (single user mode) and you attempt to run 'ed' it does
 NOTHING! I attempted to edit rc.conf and found that little bug-a-boo out...
 Use 'vi' you say? Well that shit doesn't work as well! You can view the
 file, even save it, but you CAN'T edit it!

  Did you mount / as well as made sure there's a writable /tmp/
  and/or /var/tmp/?  Then ex/vi normally should work, possibly ed as well.

  > Use Gentoo ;-)

  No thanks :)
  -- 
  Matt


State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: spz@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:15:47 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
a read-only file system will not let you write files?
I'd say that works as advertized.


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