On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Dan Farrell schrieb:
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 +0000
> >
> > Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> After a mammoth session on an old machine, which crashed, I ended up
> >> with these files that refuse to be deleted:
> >> ===============================================================
> >> #
> >> ls
> >> -la
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/ ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen.libhyphen680li_1.cmd: Permission
> >> denied ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen_dflt_version.c: Permission denied
> >> ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/guesslang_dflt_version.c: Permission
> >> denied
> >> ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen680li.def: Permission denied
> >> ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/libmythes.cmd: Permission denied
> >> ls: cannot
> >> access
> >> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/li
> >>ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen_hyphen680li.map: Permission denied
> >> total 0
> >> drwxr-xr-- 2 portage portage 280 Oct 28 09:38 .
> >> drwxr-xr-- 4 portage portage  96 Oct 28 09:38 ..
> >> ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ? guesslang_dflt_version.c
> >> ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >> hyphen.libhyphen680li_1.cmd ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?           
> >> ? hyphen680li.def ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >> hyphen_dflt_version.c ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >> hyphen_hyphen680li.map ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >> libmythes.cmd
> >> ===============================================================
> >>
> >> (the "?" symbols are shown like this on my terminal too).
> >>
> >> I am about to start a new emerge of OOo, but would think that I
> >> should first remove this mess just to be sure.  How do I do that?
> >> Tried chmod and chown. The files are owned by portage:portage, but
> >> chmod-ing them fails.
> >
> > I wonder if you could clear out all of /var/tmp?  I'm not sure if
> > that's unsafe or not...
>
> ccache uses /var/tmp/ccache

I think my problem is that I cannot delete these files, either individually or 
by deleting the parent directory.  Is there a way I could force-delete them?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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