[Scratchbox-users] scratchbox FC6 bug?

Jeff G hjeffg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 21:36:25 EET 2007


On 2/6/07, Jussi Hakala <jussi.hakala at movial.fi> wrote:
> By active Scratchbox I mean Scratchbox which has been started with
> sbox_ctl, which has the bindmounts under user directories in place.
>
> The kernel doesn't prevent you from destroying the contents of the
> bindmounted directories any more that it would prevent you doing rm -rf
> /dev as root.
>
> Luckily, with udev, most of the dev nodes are restored with reboot. And
> things under /proc are naturally restored too (if lost in the first place).
>
> However, before removing a Scratchbox installation, always make sure
> that you stop it before uninstalling. The scripts in Debian packages
> should take care of this automatically but that means you have to have
> the Scratchbox installed from those in the first place.
>
> Regards,
>
>    Jussi
>
> Jeff G wrote:
> > Wow!  Thanks, I didn't see that command in the maemo quick start tutorial.
> >
> > Not sure what you meant by "active" installation, though.  If that
> > means "mounts" active, I would think the kernel should not mess up the
> > file system even so.
> >
> > Regardless, I really appreciate the help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
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do I have to STOP before doing a shutdown, or will things take care of
themselves?


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