Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: btman@ugcs.caltech.edu Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor Message-ID: <199902252155.NAA01849@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240314570.592-100000@lionking.org>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902240314570.592-100000@lionking.org>,
Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> One of my source directories seems to have gotten clobbered
> somehow. It's killing cvsup now, thus:
...
> Updater failed: Cannot create directories leading to
> "/usr/src/contrib/nvi/docs/interp/#cvs.cvsup-23994.1": Bad file descriptor
Yeah, something bad is wrong.
> "interp" seems to be broken. And as expected, I can't delete that
> directory or even list it.
What's the exact error message? Have you tried this?
cd /usr/src/contrib/nvi/docs
chflags -R 0 interp
rm -rf interp
or this?
cd /usr/src/contrib/nvi
chflags -R 0 docs
rm -rf docs
> So, and I'm sure it's a simple answer (like "fsck it" or
> something),
Yes, definitely run fsck on the filesystem.
John
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