Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:24:51 +0000 | From | "gmu 2k6" <> | Subject | Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!? |
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On 7/27/06, gmu 2k6 <gmu2006@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/27/06, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > > Andreas Mohr wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > for some reason a 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build seems to kill my /dev/null device! > > > > > > A simple > > > # make bzImage modules modules_install > > > managed to reduce my > > > > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 27. Jul 12:04 null > > > > > > into the charred remains equivalent of > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 27. Jul 12:02 null > > > > Don't build as root. > > > > While something's broke in kernel build scripts and probably > > should be fixed, it's not a reason for anyone to get their > > whole filesystem rm -rf'ed. > > and it does not matter if you're using udev: > $ ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-07-27 11:42 /dev/null
actually this is so obvious I should not have posted that reply. sorry guys. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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