From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 25 13:55:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EEF514DEB for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:55:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA00576; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA01849; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:55:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199902252155.NAA01849@vashon.polstra.com> To: btman@ugcs.caltech.edu Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor In-Reply-To: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , Brian Tiemann 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message