On Hai, 17 GiÂȘng 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory > but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had > weird permissions: > > c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes > ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f. > I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the > only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted. > > Any suggestions???
Have you checked the immutability bit with chattr, try a chattr -i fonts. But it looks like your hard drive is corrupted, I'd fsck it before trying to remove the directory/file. -- Ashley Clark