On Saturday 02 May 2009 20:30:39 binutils wrote: > I couldn't remove coreutils-7.3 directory after installation, even if using > sudo. > > bash-4.0$ rm -rf coreutils-7.3/ > rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty > > bash-4.0$ sudo rm -rf coreutils-7.3/ > rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty
usually this is due to a test which mounts a tmpfs aborting midway and not unmounting the tmpfs tree. run `mount` to see if that's the case, and post the output as well so we can see which case misbehaved. then you should be able to manually run `umount` and then `rm -rf` -mike
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