[K12OSN] File permissions and ownership missing

[Peter Scheie]

The files in /home/*/Drives/ are pointers to local devices on the client 
such as USB sticks and floppy disks.   Are you seeing this while logged 
in on a client that boots via floppy disk?

Peter

RMSELTech wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen a file that has no permissions and no ownership?
> 
> [root at mail ~]# ls -l /home/afry/Drives
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?            ? /home/afry/Drives/My_Floppy
> 
> I don't know why this file has no information -- I can't delete it. If I 
> try to remove it as a file, the error message says it is a directory. If 
> I try to remove it as a directory, the error message says "cannot lstat 
> the filename". And I
> can't install IceWM because of it. (See the very end of the screen I
> copied and pasted below.)
> 
> I really need to install Ice, because everyone is used to using IceWM as 
> the default. I hope
> there are no other files like the above. It's almost as if it is corrupted
> somehow.
> 
> I have pasted the screen that references this file when I try to install 
> IceWM.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rita Gibson
> RMSELTech
> 
> [root at mail ~]# yum install icewm
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "protectbase" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 0 packages excluded due to repository protections
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package icewm.i386 0:1.2.30-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package icewm.x86_64 0:1.2.28-1.k12ltsp.6.0.0 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libImlib.so.1 for package: icewm
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package imlib.i386 1:1.9.13-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libgdk-1.2.so.0 for package: imlib
> --> Processing Dependency: libglib-1.2.so.0 for package: imlib
> --> Processing Dependency: libgtk-1.2.so.0 for package: imlib
> --> Processing Dependency: libgmodule-1.2.so.0 for package: imlib
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package gtk+.i386 1:1.2.10-56.el5 set to be updated
> ---> Package glib.i386 1:1.2.10-20.el5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Installing:
> icewm                   i386       1.2.30-1.el5.rf  rpmforge32        1.1 M
> icewm                   x86_64     1.2.28-1.k12ltsp.6.0.0  k12ltsp
>   793 k
> Installing for dependencies:
> glib                    i386       1:1.2.10-20.el5  k12ltsp           137 k
> gtk+                    i386       1:1.2.10-56.el5  k12ltsp           923 k
> imlib                   i386       1:1.9.13-1.el5.rf  rpmforge32
> 658 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Install      5 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 3.5 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running Transaction Test
> error: failed to stat /home/afry/Drives/My_Floppy: Permission denied
> Finished Transaction Test
> 
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>  package imlib-1.9.13-30.fc6 (which is newer than imlib-1.9.13-1.el5.rf)
> is already installed
> 
> Error Summary
> -------------
> 
> 
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