Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:19:11 +0400 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: [WARNING -mm] 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 build kills /dev/null!? |
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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.
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