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zbindere
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 Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: Impossible to delete a file |
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I have a file in
| Code: | | /usr/portage/sci-electronics/magic/files |
which I cannot delete. Here more information:
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cd /usr/portage/sci-electronics/magic/files
#ls
10magic?
#rm 10*
rm: cannot remove `10magic\b': No such file or directory
#cd ..
#rm -rf files
rm: cannot remove directory `files/': Directory not empty
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When I type ls 10 and push the tab I get:
what is going on here. I have never seen something like that. |
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kfiaciarka
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Try use mc to that:) |
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| does not work with mc |
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Akkara
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Could your filesystem have become corrupted? Maybe try to boot from a live-cd and do a fsck -f on it?
What does ls -la in that directory give? |
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BlackEdder
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: |
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I just tested a file with a ? and that doesn't seem to be a problem
| Code: | edwin@zaphod:~/tmp$ touch bla?
edwin@zaphod:~/tmp$ rm bla\? |
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Darkael
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: |
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zbindere, can you post the output of these two commands:
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #rm 10magic\?
rm: cannot remove `10magic?': No such file or directory |
as I said bash completion gives me: 10magic^H |
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| KarnEvil wrote: | zbindere, can you post the output of these two commands:
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Here the output:
| Code: | #ls -lq
ls: 10magi: No such file or directory
total 0 |
| Code: | #ls -lb
ls: 10magic\b: No such file or directory
total 0 |
| Code: | #ls -la
ls: 10magi: No such file or directory
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 72 Apr 7 10:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 72 Apr 7 10:29 .. |
I even cannot move the directory to anoder partition. really strange.
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Darkael
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Try:
(don't escape the ?) |
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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| KarnEvil wrote: | Try:
(don't escape the ?) |
Output:
| Code: | #rm 10magic?
rm: cannot remove `10magic\b': No such file or directory |
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Darkael
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, now try to delete it with its inode number. Here is how to do it:
-first find the inode number of the file with ls
-use find to delete the file
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find . -inum XXXXXXX -exec rm -i {} \;
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(replace XXXXXXX with the inode)
If it doesn't work, as Akkara said check if your fs is not corrupted or something (unless anyone has another suggestion)
By the way, what is your shell? (bash?) |
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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I am getting crazy here 
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#ls -i
ls: 10magi: No such file or directory |
Yes its bash.
And yes I am going to do a fscheck. |
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guduri
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen this before. I use reiserfs and it turned out to be a file system corruption. Had to rebuild the tree in single user mode and then the problem went away. It really drove me nuts.
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Darkael
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| zbindere wrote: | I am getting crazy here
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#ls -i
ls: 10magi: No such file or directory |
Yes its bash.
And yes I am going to do a fscheck. |
Try to find the inode with:
It it still doesn't work, do as guduri and Akkara said |
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zbindere
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #stat -c %i *
stat: cannot stat `10magic\b': No such file or directory |
OK it is the fs. I will never user reiser again. it is not stable enough. It is the third time I have a
reiserfs issue on my servers. for servers I will use from now on ext3.
thanks everybody for you help. |
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niskel
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| zbindere wrote: | | Code: | #stat -c %i *
stat: cannot stat `10magic\b': No such file or directory |
OK it is the fs. I will never user reiser again. it is not stable enough. It is the third time I have a
reiserfs issue on my servers. for servers I will use from now on ext3.
thanks everybody for you help. |
I had the same problem, fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree fixed it for the moment but it was only a matter of time before 3 more came up. I am thuroughly disappointed with reiser as well. I have since moved to ext3 and have never been happier  . |
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