Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i would suggest the immutable flag, but AFAIK reiserfs has no such thing. Even if it would have - I do not use such nifty things on a testing box ... sure someone isn't playing a joke on you and replaced /bin/su with fakeroot ;-) :) But I can rm any

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:41:23AM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i would suggest the immutable flag, but AFAIK reiserfs has no such thing. Even if it would have - I do not use such nifty things on a testing box ... The point is that if there is

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:52:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to wonder why they can't delete the file even as root. I don't know whether reiserfs

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:29:09AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:52:45PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/ man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Josh McKinney wrote: It may very well be that your reiserfs is corrupted. I had the same sort of errors happen to me. Maybe check your syslogs and see if there is any strange errors from reiserfs. Or do an fsck. Yes, even with jornalling filesystems, that may be

root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Corrupted filesystem, unlink that file and try again. Hmmm, I have also a relict of older ReiserFS (from 2.4.4 or so) on my HD (I´m so happy that I didn´t used it on a critical box and perhaps never will do so ...): /var/lug# whoami root /var/lug#

Re: root rm: Permission denied (Was: unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man3/qcanvas.3qt.gz')

2001-09-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:24:56PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Corrupted filesystem, unlink that file and try again. Hmmm, I have also a relict of older ReiserFS (from 2.4.4 or so) on my HD (I´m so happy that I didn´t used it on a critical box