On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 08:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I got an interesting message out of cron today.... > > /etc/cron.daily/checksecurity: > find: /home/baloo/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc: Permission denied > > ...and I started thinking, "Oh, maybe if I get rid of that file, I might be > able to get arts to start working right again...." Well, I try to rm it as a > normal user, and I get Permission denied. Try rm that file again, and again, > I get Permission denied as root. I can't change permissions on it, either. > > root@ursine:~/.kde/share/config$ ls -l /home/baloo/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc > ls: /home/baloo/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc: Permission denied > > How could this happen, and how can I fix it? > (I sent this message yesterday but it still hasn't shown up on the list, so trying again. Apologies if it's a duplicate.) I've seen this before on ReiserFS partitions gone bad. Happened to me a number of times. The best way to make sure that that is, in fact, what's happening, is to see if you get a "Permission denied" on it when you do an 'ls' in the directory. If you do, then it's a filesystem problem. In the case of ReiserFS, it's a filesystem problem requiring a --rebuild-tree. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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