I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read only as well ) Just a thought
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: > Hello, > > I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, > but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. > > I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined > group, and I can't seem to remove, move, or change its ownership: > > leisure# ls -l fstobdf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 65535 29640 Oct 17 23:58 fstobdf > rm: remove `fstobdf', overriding mode 0755? y > rm: fstobdf: Operation not permitted > leisure# chown root.root fstobdf > chown: fstobdf: Operation not permitted > leisure# rm fstobdf > leisure# mv fstobdf fstobdf.1 > mv: cannot move `fstobdf' to `fstobdf.1': Operation not permitted > > I have no idea how the file's ownership got this way, or how to > remove it. I haven't tried going to single-user mode yet; I'm on > a remote connection to this box. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > --ken > > > __ > Ken Lauffenburger / / __ __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ / > / / __ ____ __ __ \ / > / / / / / _ \ / / / / / \ > ...Look out Bill, / /___ / / / / ) // (_/ / / /\ \ > here comes... (______)(_/ (_/ (_/ \____/ (_/ \_) > ________http://www.debian.org________ > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
