Silly me. Over a month ago, my system crashed and upon reboot, I performed a fsck while all filesystems were still mounted. Yes, I ignored all the warnings, so it's my fault. OK, well here's the problem... something went wrong and several of my files got corrupted, uncluding the whole /usr/man/man7/ directory. Here's a look at the listing of /usr/man/
total 960149485 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 May 14 23:27 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Apr 9 20:45 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jul 26 1997 de_DE drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jul 26 1997 it_IT drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 11264 May 14 23:27 man1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6144 Apr 28 18:24 man2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17408 May 14 23:27 man3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 29 18:35 man4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 May 14 23:27 man5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 25 01:05 man6 b---r-srwx 1 24941 25966 47, 57 Apr 28 22:55 man7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7168 May 14 23:09 man8 As you can see, man7 thinks that it is a block device. I can't access this in any way, as root, I have tried to rm -f, rename, and move. Nothing. I tried creating a user with ID 24941 and removing that way. Nothing. Tried to take ownership of it, no can do. Can't chmod either. root /usr/man# rm -rf man7 rm: man7: Operation not permitted root /usr/man# mv man7 temp mv: cannot move `man7' to `temp': Operation not permitted root /usr/man# chown root man7 chown: man7: Operation not permitted root /usr/man# chgrp root man chgrp: man7: Operation not permitted I could try ignoring it, since I rarely use man7, but unfortunately, some packages must put pages there and the installation fails. For example, Running dpkg -iGROEB /mnt/f/download/debian (Reading database ... 13903 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace groff 1.10-3 (using .../debian/groff_1.10-3.5.deb) ... Unpacking replacement groff ... dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man7', which is also in package procps [chop] Would prefer to fix the error rather than force an install. Sure hope someone can help me, I've been puzzling over this one for too long. I have about 70 more of these "files" that were recovered and now reside in /lost+found/ and are resistant to eviction thus far. TIA, Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
