Re: Serious dpkg error
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Marcus wrote:
> dpkg: error processing telnetd (--remove):
> unable to delete control info file
> `/var/lib/dpkg/info/telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted
Is /var nfs mounted, and root is being squashed to nobody?
> mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# ls -la telnetd.postinst
> b--sr-Sr-x 1 18698 24909 32, 111 Sep 17 1997 telnetd.postinst
> mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# rm telnetd.postinst
> rm: cannot unlink `telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted
> mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# lsattr telnetd.postinst
> lsattr: No such device While reading flags on telnetd.postinst
> mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# chattr -i telnetd.postinst
> chattr: No such device while reading flags on telnetd.postinst
> mastereve:/var/lib/dpkg/info# rm -rf telnetd.postinst
> rm: cannot unlink `telnetd.postinst': Operation not permitted
Hmm, maybe not nfs mounted. b means block device. Those user/group ownership
values look bad.
I tend to agree with Wichert, and think corruption.
> It's impossible to remove these two files...
> I have tried fsck:ing the partition and it doesn't help.
If you can't remove, try move.
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