CRITICAL bug in garnome! (I think)

["Steve Salazar" <eagsalazar hotmail com>]

Last night I was trying to compile garnome for Redhat null and my first 
attempt failed.  I thought that this was because of the gcc 3.2 that null 
comes with so I downloaded/compiled/installed gcc 2.95.3.

Then before starting over I thought I should do a "make clean".  So I did 
and I got several warnings about not being unable to delete devices in my 
/dev/ directory because they were in use.  Very shortly after this my box 
went down hard and would not reboot.  I think something like a rm -rf /dev/* 
happened during the "make clean".  Fortunately since this null box was just 
to play around with anyway, nothing important was lost.

Now, I know there is nowhere in the garnome documentation that says I should 
ever do a "make clean".  However, it doesn't seem like a totally 
unreasonable thing to try if you want to start over from a failed build with 
a new compiler.  In any case, it doesn't seem like garnome should hose the 
entire system if someone makes this mistake.

In retrospect I think I maybe shouldn't have been doing this stuff as root 
but I think I actually need to be root to install garnome (at least I've had 
no luck otherwise in the past).

Anyway, no real damage done here but just a heads up on a problem developers 
may want to look at.  If I am totally wrong here let me know but the events 
I described above are exactly as they happened.



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