On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:31, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > walt writes: > >> On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: >> > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch >> > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)). >> > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. > > Are all these directories located on the root file system? > >> Is the sticky bit set on /tmp? >> >> drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/ >> ^ > > Well, it set or not, this would not prevent the creation of files. > > I have no idea what's going on here. I'd force a fsck (touch /forcefsck; > reboot) to make sure it's no file system problem. And what about a live- > cd, does the problem happen then, too? >
fsck -f followed by use of USB-SATA bridge seems to work. However, my laptop just died, so I can't really test it on the laptop.
