[TriLUG] Odd

Wing D Lizard wingedlizard at nc.rr.com
Fri Aug 5 14:51:59 EDT 2005


Umm... disk full?


Brian McCullough wrote:

>I seem to have encountered an interesting one.
>
>
>On a Debian ( Knoppix -> HD ) server that I administer, apt-get (
>dselect ) has suddenly run into an interesting problem.
>
>I am logged in at the console, and attempting to update dpkg ( among
>other things, but it is first ).  The process stops ( fails ) saying
>that it can not write /usr/sbin/install-info.
>
>OK, so I look at it, and it is owned by root, with 755 permissions.
>/usr/sbin itself is the same.  If I try to delete "install-info" as
>root, from the command line, I get the same message ( permission denied
>).
>
>I don't see any evidence of SE Linux on this system, Mount claims that
>the filesystem ( / ) is mounted rw.
>
>I can't create a file in /usr/sbin, but can in /usr and delete it too.
>
>Anybody have any suggestions?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>
>
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