Comment 3 for bug 1733206

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Marcel van den Boer (synthehol) wrote :

Please, read "Linux From Scratch" (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/), the online book on which this project is based. It explains exactly why it does what it does.

If you have not done that before running LFScript, I have no idea why you were running it in the first place. If you have, you know that potentially dangerous commands are executed.

Don't get me wrong. I'm really sorry if LFScript thrashed your system. But you were running a piece of software you did not understand in a production environment, also giving it root privileges. You should never, ever, do that. (But I also learned that the hard way)

This really would be a non-issue on a VM; If something went wrong you would simply reset it to a snapshot that was taken before running LFScript.

Clearly something went wrong. And you are upset, I understand. But no, this is not a bug. From what you have told me either your host system was not set up properly, or you used LFScript in the wrong way.