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From: "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: netscape 2.0b1 fouls directory
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> Which user did you do this as?  Please elaborate on the part where you
> say "cannot be rm'd"  Thanks!
>  
>                                 Jordan
>  
> >
> > Netscape 2.0b1 created a directory ~/.netscape-cache which cannot be rm'd.
> > I mv'd it to .foo and restart netscape which recreated the file .netscape 
> > 
> > Then tried to cd to .foo, works.. now say ls and it returns:
> > ls: .: No such file or directory
> >
> > The machine has been rebooted which should have run fsck on the partition 
> > (I think..) no complaints of file system problems.
> > 
> > How can I repair this netscape damage ?
> >
> > regards
> > kim
> >
> > --
> > kimc@w8hd.org
> >

The *exact* same thing happened to me.  I rebooted into single user mode, 
fsck'd the partition, and it removed the directory.  When I ran Netscape 
again, it worked as normal.  It probably only stuffs thing up when 
"upgrading" the old .netscape files.

This was done as "root".


Dan ...
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