On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> I saw a message where you had tried rm and it said you didn't have
> permission, I did not see the ones where it was giving you a hard reset of
> the system. Sorry.
No problem. :-)
> You coming up in init 5 or 3. I mean, graphical login or CL login? If KDE
> is up and active, could explain why trying to get rid of an active and open
> directory is causing problems.
Tried both 5 and 3, even booted into single-user mode. Also from one of the
other messages:
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I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and since then, I've
not been able to use /home/darklord/Mail. I tried deleting it, it caused the
system to reboot. I tried deleting it as root, it caused the system to
reboot. Running "updatedb" caused the system to reboot. Anocron/cron running
(and I'm assuming thus updating the DB) caused it to reboot. I tried using a
rescue disk and mounting the partition then deleting it, caused the system to
reboot. I tried deleting the inodes - operation not permitted. I tried
dropping to and/or booting into single user mode and deleting it - caused the
system to reboot.
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> You could always boot up in single user mode, init 1 and then try to remove
> it there. Although, if the directory is actually active and in use,
> removing it might be a mistake.
No its not active - I did this:
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I was able (go figure!!!) to "mv Mail .Mail-old". Then, I set the
slocate/updatedb conf file to ignore my /home/darklord stuff.
I turned Anacron off, and run the "updatedb" command when ever it reminds me
that more than 8 days have passed. I reran Kmail and it setup a new Mail
directory in /home/darklord and its been fine since.
Fortunately for me, I've got an 80 gig hard drive, so the space taken by
.Mail-old doesn't hurt.
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> Curious if you might be storing a lock file there rather than /var/subsys
> for some KDE process....
>
> Have you tried doing a ls -a from within that directory to see what is in
> there?
Sure did. Nothing looks suspect, all permissions look above-board.
You might like this part, I can't go into "sent-mail" in .Mail-old using KDE
without it hard resetting.
Like I said, can't wait to get 9.2, format/repartition everything (esp /home!)
and send that cursed directory to bit-bucket Hell... <grin>
Thanks for your input though.
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