Re: Probably unrelated, but VERY WEIRD PROBLEM

From: Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 12:54:34 EST


Alwyn Schoeman a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this might be unrelated, but it is so strange to me that
> I need to mail it here,
>
> Running Mandrake 7.0, uninstall apache using rpm. Try to
> install newer version, can't because of a problem with some
> files left over by the previous version.
>
> I am root, these files are not in use as reported by fuser. I
> can't rm -rf, chown or chmod no matter what I try? I get the
> following
> error message:
> rm: cannot unlink `mm.507.sem': Operation not permitted
>
> How can this be?

could you rnu lsattr on them ?
then chattr -i *;rm -f *

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