Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 4:33 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote: On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Have yoiu reported this to the Mozilla developers? Anne You know I should because it appears to be some old leftover code

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dark, Another possibility that Mail-old is sitting on a bad sector. Either bad as in physically bad or bad as in the sense that it's lost it's connection to reality. James Yep, although it is a fairly new 80 gig Maxtor

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-10-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 4:33 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote: On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Have yoiu reported this to the Mozilla developers? Anne You know I

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 3:19 am, John Wilson wrote: On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Thanks people. I've just done a complete reinstall and moved over to 99% reiserFS. ;-( I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with Mozilla. Mozilla has

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: sniplet Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will actually work, but

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila. I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once every 2 months and then move my backup of bookmarks and cookie (do not set) files back over. 2 times now it's created

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File SOLVED

2003-09-30 Thread me
Ok thank you for all the suggestions, they were more than I knew to try. I accidentally stumbled onto the solution. I booted to a backup version of 9.1 I have on a little drive, loaded the raid drivers and tried to delete the file, still no progress. Over the past couple of days I've tried to

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will actually work, but

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote: have you considered this mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null/ Only the last slash as a diff? Well, I tried it, as user and root - same result. Thanks for the suggestion though. --

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: or as Root rm -rf .Mail-old from the directory it is in. I am not aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do it and that you specify exactly what you want to target. Umm, have you read the

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:55 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: or as Root rm -rf .Mail-old from the directory it is in. I am not aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do it and that you specify

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread John Wilson
On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda problem with ext2 and ext3. My best guess is that it's a messed

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:19, John Wilson wrote: On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: sniplet Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila.

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote: On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote: I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda problem

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:40, me wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 09:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote: Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you from su'ing to root and deleting it that way? --Dave Kde says Access Denied Shell: (su as root) rm chrome rm: remove write-protected weird file

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote: Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you from su'ing to root and deleting it that way? --Dave Kde says Access Denied Shell:

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 6:52 am, me wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote: Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you from su'ing to root and deleting it that way? --Dave Kde says Access Denied Shell: (su as root)

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 03:02 am, Richard Urwin wrote: try going down to single-user mode (telinit 1 as root) and delete it from there. maybe some process has the file open. tried that :( Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox lsattr chrome lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome file chrome chrome: setuid setgid file: invalid mode 0176372. Hope that helps Jack Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox Also this may help: stat chrome File: `chrome' Size: 2369121266 Blocks: 3942645760 IO Block: 4096 weird file Device: 7206h/29190dInode: 507535 Links: 442 Access:

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox lsattr chrome lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome file chrome chrome: setuid setgid file:

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox lsattr chrome lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome file chrome chrome: setuid setgid file:

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 8:40 am, Vox wrote: That does sound very very bad...I've never seen lsattr spit that kind of output on an ext* filesystem. I am starting to think it's time you try to format that partition and see if that fixes it...it seems like something is very very bad

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I saw a similar problem once. A reboot fixed it. I'd still like to know why it happened, but if you haven't tried it, do that before you try anything more desperate. Anne Unfortunately that didn't change anything, may have to try the

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:10, me wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 03:02 am, Richard Urwin wrote: try going down to single-user mode (telinit 1 as root) and delete it from there. maybe some process has the file open. tried that :( Jack Jack, I've had one of these before.

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:45, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox lsattr chrome lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 01:41, me wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I saw a similar problem once. A reboot fixed it. I'd still like to know why it happened, but if you haven't tried it, do that before you try anything more desperate. Anne Unfortunately

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:04, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:45, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote: what does lsattr chrome and file chrome give you? Vox lsattr chrome

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had one of these once as the early warning that reiserfs was about to take a dump. I ended up trying reiserfsck on it, which destroyed about half the files in the partition. Back up early and often. Haven't had it do to reiser

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread kwan
Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a file. Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it shows up as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer. EXT3 file system, file system check shows no problem. The file shows OWNER: 35327

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: ... I had one of these once as the early warning that reiserfs was about to take a dump. I ended up trying reiserfsck on it, which destroyed about half the files in the partition.

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread me
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this has been suggested but you can try finding and deleting by inode: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -i 32903 mozilla.ps 32770 week1_day1 1802247 mp3 32911 week1_day1.sxw 32917

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your undeletable file but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory. I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and since

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 29-09-2003 a las 15:24, Ronald J. Hall escribió: On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your undeletable file but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory.

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread John Wilson
On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote: sniplet Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila. I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once every 2

[expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-28 Thread me
Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a file. Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it shows up as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer. EXT3 file system, file system check shows no problem. The file shows OWNER: 35327 and I