walt writes: > On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: > > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch > > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)). > > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
Are all these directories located on the root file system? > Is the sticky bit set on /tmp? > > drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/ > ^ Well, it set or not, this would not prevent the creation of files. I have no idea what's going on here. I'd force a fsck (touch /forcefsck; reboot) to make sure it's no file system problem. And what about a live- cd, does the problem happen then, too? Wonko