Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 25/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote:

> root (superuser) is unable to delete, chmod, modify, move or do ANYTHING to
> this file. I've done gazillions of things to try and correct it. 
> I've booted up
> with tomsrtbt, fsck'ed the disk many times, run badblocks on it, 
> tried deleting
> it when the drive was not mounted as / and many many other things that people
> have suggested. Here is what i get when root does "rm -Rf
> /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4":

sounds like a immutable file, even though those permissions are 
totally wrong that is irrelevant to root, if you are getting 
operation not permitted for every action on it i would suspect 
immutability, try

lsattr /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4

if you see sometihng like this:

---i--- 	/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4

then its immutable, run

chattr -i /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4

then try and remove it.

how it got that way i would sure like to know though...


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