Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-16 Thread Jimmy Richards
Cool. Glad to be of help. Are you adminisetring Linux system at 'The IQ Group' there in Kansas? I love Kansas. I used to live on a farm there every summer when I was a kid, just outside a little tiny town called White City. Boy, those were the days. Jimmy Richards On Mon, Jul

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-16 Thread Kelly Corbin
That did it, thanks! Jeremy Gaddis wrote: Try running "lsattr /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright" and see if the file has the immutable bit set. If it does, "chattr -i" will remove it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Kelly Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > How is that possible? > > I thought running fsck would help, but it didn't. > > Any ideas? I'm completely stuck now and I've never seen anything like > this before. Have you tried lsattr?

RE: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
Try running "lsattr /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright" and see if the file has the immutable bit set. If it does, "chattr -i" will remove it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Message- From: Kelly Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 4:18 PM T

Re: Unable to delete file

2001-07-13 Thread Jimmy Richards
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade to the unstable release and have hit a major snag. > > Doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with the following message: > > Unable to update link /usr/share/doc/tk8.2/copyright : > Operation not permitted > >