No such file or directory

sjod · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 22

I have, apparently, a file: /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r2/image/usr/share/man/man3/attr_on.3x.gz
ls tells me that it exists.

I would like to delete it. rm rm attr_on.3x.gz produces rm: cannot remove `attr_on.3x.gz': No such file or directory

rm -f produces no error, but does not delete the file.

ls -l produces ls: attr_on.3x.gz: No such file or directory (not ls -l attr_on.3x.gz, just ls -l)

rm -fr from lower in the directory tree tells me that it cannot delete the directory as it is not empty.

So, this file does, and yet, does not, exist.

Any suggestions on how to get rid of this ghost?

I wasn't sure which forum this belonged in, but since the file was created by portage, I put it here. Please move if you disagree.

meowsqueak · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 6:54 am Post subject:

Might be a good idea to boot as single user mode or from LiveCD and do a fsck on that partition - looks like you've got a file system inconsistency. What file system are you using? Ext3?

sjod · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 22

I'm using a reiser fs

sjod · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 22

Ok, I ran reiserfsck, was told that I had fatal corruptions and to run --rebuild-tree, which I did.

All fixed now

Thanks