Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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`
If you can reproduce this, please see what is in that coreutils-7.3/lib directory, e.g., run "find coreutils-7.3/lib" I would be surprised to find a mount point there, since no test should mount anything in lib/. However, I did spot one test that did not invoke umount from a trap. This fixes it: >From f3cfa14f04e5d09368208d9e3344b26a1f160901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 07:54:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tests: rm/one-file-system: umount more reliably * tests/rm/one-file-system: Run umount via trap, so it runs also upon irregular termination. --- tests/rm/one-file-system | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/rm/one-file-system b/tests/rm/one-file-system index 2de7678..c8e11eb 100755 --- a/tests/rm/one-file-system +++ b/tests/rm/one-file-system @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh # Demonstrate rm's new --one-file-system option. -# Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ fi require_root_ # If used, these must *follow* test-lib.sh. -cleanup_() { rm -rf "$other_partition_tmpdir"; } +cleanup_() +{ + umount "$other_partition_tmpdir" + rm -rf "$other_partition_tmpdir" +} . "$abs_srcdir/other-fs-tmpdir" t=$other_partition_tmpdir @@ -41,7 +45,6 @@ fail=0 rm --one-file-system -rf a 2> out && fail=1 test -d $t/y || fail=1 -umount $t compare out exp || fail=1 -- 1.6.3.rc4.190.g4648 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils