RE: port-alpha/41808: 'ed' doesn't work!

["Will L Givens" <wlgivens%gmail.com@localhost>]

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From: "Will L Givens" <wlgivens%gmail.com@localhost>
To: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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@localhost] 
 Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 07:55
 To: port-alpha-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost; 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost;
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost; wlgivens%gmail.com@localhost
 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@localhost>
 To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 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@localhost 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