This is my same old problem of the /var partion that won't
let me auto boot into multi-user.  

  This is how I bring the system up now.

1.  boot single user
2.  fsck / partition
3.  exit single user

Then it comes up in multi user mode.

Then I unmount /var partition and fsck it.
I do this because if I try to do anything ( fsck, mount ) with that
partition 
in single user  mode, the system hangs.  

  If I try to boot single user automatically.  The system hangs 
after it checks my root and user partion.

The last message that I see when I try to auto boot is:

/dev/rsd1a Marking file system clean.


Some one recommended putting " set -x " at the top of my /etc/rc
file.  I tried that; It didn't seem to help..  The system hung
at the same point.

Here is some info below about my file system.
disklabels and related error messages, /etc/fstab, etc.

I hope some one can find some obvious problem that I am missing here.


Thanks for any advice in advance.

  Guy

This is the disklabel for my internal drive which has the /var 
partition on it:

# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 96
tracks/cylinder: 2
sectors/cylinder: 192
cylinders: 2740
total sectors: 528808
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

7 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:       32      144     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
  b:   268630   260176         HFS                        # (Cyl. 1355*- 2754*)
  c:   528808        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2754*)
  d:        2   528806     unknown                        # (Cyl. 2754*- 2754*)
  g:   260000      176      4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*- 1355*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0

This is the disklabe for my esternal drive which has the root/user partion
and swap space on it.


# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 177
tracks/cylinder: 4
sectors/cylinder: 708
cylinders: 5909
total sectors: 4194288
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

6 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:  2048000      176      4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*- 2892*)
  b:   122880  2048176        swap                        # (Cyl. 2892*- 3066*)
  c:  4194288        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 5924*)
  d:       32      144     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
  e:  1111522  3082766         HFS                        # (Cyl. 4354*- 5924*)
  f:   911710  2171056         HFS                        # (Cyl. 3066*- 4354*)
disklabel: boot block size 0
disklabel: super block size 0

This is the result of the df command when the system is up and running.

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd1a      991501   615600   276750    69%    /
kernfs              1        1        0   100%    /kern
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
/dev/sd0g      124542      643   117671     1%    /var

/dev/sd1a	/	ffs	rw 1 1
/dev/sd1b	none	swap	sw 0 0
/dev/sd0g	/var	ffs	rw 1 2
kern		/kern	kernfs	rw 0 0
proc		/proc	procfs	rw 0 0
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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.2
South Korea
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