On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Marcus wrote: > dpkg: error processing telnetd (--remove): > unable to delete control info file > `/var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted
Is /var nfs mounted, and root is being squashed to nobody? > mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# ls -la telnetd.postinst > b--sr-Sr-x 1 18698 24909 32, 111 Sep 17 1997 telnetd.postinst > mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# rm telnetd.postinst > rm: cannot unlink `telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted > mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# lsattr telnetd.postinst > lsattr: No such device While reading flags on telnetd.postinst > mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# chattr -i telnetd.postinst > chattr: No such device while reading flags on telnetd.postinst > mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# rm -rf telnetd.postinst > rm: cannot unlink `telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted Hmm, maybe not nfs mounted. b means block device. Those user/group ownership values look bad. I tend to agree with Wichert, and think corruption. > It's impossible to remove these two files... > I have tried fsck:ing the partition and it doesn't help. If you can't remove, try move.
