Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a file.
Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it shows up
as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer.
EXT3 file system, file system check shows no problem.
The file shows OWNER: 35327
and I can
me grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a
> file.
>
> Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it
> shows up
> as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer.
>
> EXT3 file system, file system check shows no
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote:
> Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you
> from su'ing to root and deleting it that way?
>
> --Dave
Kde says Access Denied
Shell: (su as root)
rm chrome
rm: remove write-protected weird file
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote:
>> Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you
>> from su'ing to root and deleting it that way?
>>
>> --Dave
> Kde says Access Denied
>
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 6:52 am, me wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 01:06 am, David Guntner wrote:
> > Root can delete any file or directory in the system. What's stopping you
> > from su'ing to root and deleting it that way?
> >
> > --Dave
>
> Kde says Access Denied
>
> Shell: (s
On Monday 29 September 2003 03:02 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> try going down to single-user mode ("telinit 1" as root) and delete it from
> there.
> maybe some process has the file open.
tried that :(
Jack
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On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
>
> Vox
lsattr chrome
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome
file chrome
chrome: setuid setgid file: invalid mode 0176372.
Hope that helps
Jack
Want to buy
On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
>
> Vox
Also this may help:
stat chrome
File: `chrome'
Size: 2369121266 Blocks: 3942645760 IO Block: 4096 weird file
Device: 7206h/29190dInode: 507535 Links: 442
Access: (63
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
>> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
>>
>> Vox
>
> lsattr chrome
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome
>
> file chrome
> chrome: setu
On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
>> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
>>
>> Vox
>
> lsattr chrome
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on chrome
>
> file chrome
> chrome: setu
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 8:40 am, Vox wrote:
>
> That does sound very very bad...I've never seen lsattr spit that
> kind of output on an ext* filesystem.
>
> I am starting to think it's time you try to format that partition
> and see if that fixes it...it seems like something is very very
> ba
On Monday 29 September 2003 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I saw a similar problem once. A reboot fixed it. I'd still like to
> know why it happened, but if you haven't tried it, do that before you
> try anything more desperate.
>
> Anne
Unfortunately that didn't change anything, may have to try
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:10, me wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 03:02 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > try going down to single-user mode ("telinit 1" as root) and delete it from
> > there.
> > maybe some process has the file open.
> tried that :(
>
> Jack
>
>
Jack,
I've had one of thes
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:45, Vox wrote:
> On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
> >> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
> >>
> >> Vox
> >
> > lsattr chrome
> > lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device Wh
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 01:41, me wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 03:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I saw a similar problem once. A reboot fixed it. I'd still like to
> > know why it happened, but if you haven't tried it, do that before you
> > try anything more desperate.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Unf
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:04, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 00:45, Vox wrote:
> > On September 1993 plus 3680 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 29 September 2003 02:01 am, Vox wrote:
> > >> what does "lsattr chrome" and "file chrome" give you?
> > >>
> > >> Vox
> > >
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
...
> >
> > I had one of these once as the early warning that reiserfs was about to
> > take a dump. I ended up trying reiserfsck on it, which destroyed about
> > half the files in the partition. Back up early and often.
>
> Haven't had it do t
> Hello, I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to delete a
> file.
>
> Apparently the directory /usr/local/netscape/chrome/ got hosed and it
> shows up
> as a 2.2gb file and not a directory any longer.
>
> EXT3 file system, file system check shows no problem.
>
> The file shows OWNER:
On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
> ...
>
> > > I had one of these once as the early warning that reiserfs was about to
> > > take a dump. I ended up trying reiserfsck on it, which destroyed about
> > > half the files in the par
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not sure if this has been suggested but you can try finding and deleting
> by inode:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -i
> 32903 mozilla.ps 32770 week1_day1
> 1802247 mp3 32911 week1_day1.sxw
> 32
On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestion.
> Jack
Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your "undeletable file" but I
sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory.
I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and si
El lun, 29-09-2003 a las 15:24, Ronald J. Hall escribió:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the suggestion.
> > Jack
>
> Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your "undeletable file" but I
> sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a di
On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila.
> > > I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once ever
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 3:19 am, John Wilson wrote:
> On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > Thanks people. I've just done a complete reinstall and moved over to 99%
> > reiserFS. ;-(
>
> I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem except with
> Mozilla. Mozill
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote:
> On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
>
>
>
> > > > Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to
> >
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP
> since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ??
>
> Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null`
>
> ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will
> actually work,
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mozzila.
> I have to do an rm -Rf .mozilla about once every 2 months and then move
> my backup of bookmarks and cookie (do not set) files back over. 2 times
> now it's crea
On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP
> since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ??
>
> Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null`
>
> ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will
> actually work
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
>
> > WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP
> > since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ??
> >
> > Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null`
> >
> > ... /dev/n
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Monday 29 September 2003 10:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > > WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP
> > > since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ??
> > >
> > >
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:24 am, ed tharp wrote:
> have you considered this " mv .Mail-old/ /dev/null/"
Only the last slash as a diff? Well, I tried it, as user and root - same
result. Thanks for the suggestion though.
--
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> or as Root "rm -rf .Mail-old" from the directory it is in. I am not aware
> of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want to do
> it and that you specify exactly what you want to target.
Umm, have you read the ea
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:55 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:33 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > or as Root "rm -rf .Mail-old" from the directory it is in. I am not
> > aware of anything that an rm -rf won't get rid of. Just be sure you want
> > to do it and that you
On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote:
> > I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem
> > except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda
> > problem with ext2 and ext3. My best guess is that it's a
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:19, John Wilson wrote:
> On September 29, 2003 11:41 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
> > On Monday 29 Sep 2003 3:38 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > Haven't had it do to reiser but I've sure had it happen do to Mo
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote:
> On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 4:19 am, John Wilson wrote:
>
> > > I'm totally on reiserFS and have never experienced this problem
> > > except with Mozilla. Mozilla has also caused the same kinda
> >
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:40, me wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2003 09:26 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP
> > since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ??
> >
> > Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null`
> >
> > ... /dev/null being in a
On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 4:33 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote:
> > On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Have yoiu reported this to the Mozilla developers?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > You know I should because it appears to be some old l
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 05:35 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> I saw a message where you had tried rm and it said you didn't have
> permission, I did not see the ones where it was giving you a hard reset of
> the system. Sorry.
No problem. :-)
> You coming up in init 5 or 3. I mean, graphical l
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 11:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> Dark,
>
> Another possibility that Mail-old is sitting on a bad sector.
> Either bad as in physically bad or bad as in the sense that it's lost
> it's connection to reality.
>
> James
Yep, although it is a fairly new 80 gig Maxt
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:16, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 4:33 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:34, John Wilson wrote:
> > > On September 30, 2003 12:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> > > > Have yoiu reported this to the Mozilla developers?
> > > >
> > > > Anne
Ok thank you for all the suggestions, they were more than I knew to try. I
accidentally stumbled onto the solution.
I booted to a backup version of 9.1 I have on a little drive, loaded the raid
drivers and tried to delete the file, still no progress. Over the past couple
of days I've tried to
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