Finally! Some real assistance! :) Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for >30 min to make sure it has enough time to do whatever it is it is doing.
What exactly is an immutable file though? Thanks for the replies! Like I said, this is pretty much driving me insane. Eliot Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 25/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote: > > >root (superuser) is unable to delete, chmod, modify, move or do ANYTHING to > >this file. I've done gazillions of things to try and correct it. > >I've booted up > >with tomsrtbt, fsck'ed the disk many times, run badblocks on it, > >tried deleting > >it when the drive was not mounted as / and many many other things that people > >have suggested. Here is what i get when root does "rm -Rf > >/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4": > > sounds like a immutable file, even though those permissions are > totally wrong that is irrelevant to root, if you are getting > operation not permitted for every action on it i would suspect > immutability, try > > lsattr /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 > > if you see sometihng like this: > > ---i--- /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 > > then its immutable, run > > chattr -i /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 > > then try and remove it. > > how it got that way i would sure like to know though... > > > -- > Ethan Benson > To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/ >
