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Re: Can't delete file



on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Brian S Enyart (enyart@iquest.net) wrote:
> I can't complete an upgrade of the locales package due to a very odd
> error:
> 
> Unpacking replacement locales ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.1.3-17_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  unable to move aside `./usr/share/locale/cs_CZ' to install new version:
> Operation not permitted
> 
> So, I look at the file:
> 
> debian:/usr/share/locale# ls -l cs_CZ
> srwx--xrw-    1 daemon   49616       65548 Nov 23 08:22 cs_CZ
> 
> debian:/usr/share/locale# lsattr cs_CZ
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on cs_CZ
> 
> All I can figure is that I'm at a loss.  What's going on?

What filesystem are you using?  ext2fs?

Have you run fsck on the partition lately?

I suspect a lower-level problem than may be healthy.  I could be wrong.

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