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weird ls behavior after ln/rm of dir from other user



While trying to make a mounted directory containing images available to
my wife on another computer, I created a soft link in her home dir, to
the /usr/local/film subdirectory (which I had already mounted through a
soft link in my own home dir).  She could not read the contents from
her computer. 

I deleted her soft link, tried it again in a different location, and
deleted again.  From my own directory now, I get a really weird result
when trying to see the directory itself:

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06:19:07
daddy:~# ls -l /usr/local/film/
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/camera
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/cd
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/lost+found
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/movies
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/temp
?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? /usr/local/film/vaughanPix

06:19:10
daddy:~# su
Password:
[1]   Done                    HISTIGNORE=
hpotter:/home/daddy# ls -l /usr/local/film/
total 36
drwxrwxr-x  6 daddy daddy  4096 2006-06-03 12:35 camera
drwxrwxr-x  4 daddy daddy  4096 2006-08-12 16:36 cd
drwx------  2 root  root  16384 2005-01-21 19:43 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x  2 daddy daddy  4096 2006-05-28 00:17 movies
drwxr-xr-x  3 daddy daddy  4096 2006-06-04 08:50 temp
drwxr-xr-x 17 daddy daddy  4096 2006-06-02 10:41 vaughanPix

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I don't know if something got screwed via NFS or a misplaced/lost link
or whatever, but cannot get it smoothed out.  I ran e2fsck with no
luck, rebooted with no change, and don't know what else to do.

My wife can see the contents of the directory like root.

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions about this?


Kenward
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because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
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