[K12OSN] File permissions and ownership missing

RMSELTech rgibson57 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 24 17:32:01 UTC 2007


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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