From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 19:57:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8069316AA37 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antennex@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (bay106-f25.bay106.hotmail.com [65.54.161.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0C043D48 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 19:57:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from antennex@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:57:39 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 65.54.161.200 by by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:57:38 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.68.247.73] X-Originating-Email: [antennex@hotmail.com] X-Sender: antennex@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: From: "Jack Stone" To: antennex@hotmail.com, wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:57:38 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2006 19:57:39.0401 (UTC) FILETIME=[22112B90:01C68811] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files - New Hint X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:57:42 -0000 >From: "Jack Stone" >To: wmoran@collaborativefusion.com >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files >Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:52:01 -0500 > >>From: Bill Moran >>To: "Jack Stone" >>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files >>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:40:22 -0400 >> >>"Jack Stone" wrote: >> >> > >From: Chris Hill >> > >To: Jack Stone >> > >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> > >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files >> > >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT) >> > > >> > >On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Jack Stone wrote: >> > > >> > >>I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them. >> > > >> > >[...] >> > > >> > >>Here are the files and the error message: >> > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not >>permitted >> > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted >> > > >> > >Make sure the files do not have the system immutable flag set: >> > > >> > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm >> > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm >> > > >> > >...and then see if you can't delete them. I don't know why the flag >>would >> > >be set, but it's something to try. >> > > >> > >HTH. >> > > >> > >-- >> > >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org >> > >> > Chris: Tried that at the very first. No joy! >> >>If flags and permissions are all set so that the files should delete, and >>they still don't, reboot the system into single user mode and fsck the >>partition. >> >>I had this happen a number of years ago. We had dirty power and the >>system >>would reboot on occasion during brownout. We finally got UPS on the >>system, >>but months later we had files that wouldn't delete. The only way we >>finally >>got rid of them was to reboot in single user and fsck. I expect the disk >>suffered some subtle corruption during an unclean boot and it took time >>before we noticed. >> >>Another option would be to use fstat to make sure nothing has the files >>open. >> >>HTH. >> >>-- >>Bill Moran >> > >Hi, Bill: Yes, tried all of that before and again no joy -- very mysteries. >A free cigar to anyone who solves this one! > Since I learned I could "mv" the directory that contains the 2 files, I tried to move it to another partition, figuring I had a solution IF I could only do that. Here's the new error when I tried to move the directory from "/" to /usr mv: /bin/rm: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link Does this new hint stike any bells? THX Jack _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/