ok, how do I delete this file?

[Zafrusteria]

I have a file that looks a little corrupt any ideas how to delete it?

$ ls -la
ls: cannot access objects: Permission denied
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  72 2008-08-04 13:34 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 112 2008-08-04 14:18 ..
?????????? ? ?    ?      ?                ? objects

I have tried as root to

sudo rm objects 
sudo chmod 777 objects 
sudo chown root:root objects

I just get an error message saying

rm: cannot access objects: Permission denied
chmod: cannot access objects: Permission denied

I also created an root shell and tried from there. I didn't expect it to work and was right.

It was in /usr/lib/vmware/messages/binary directory and stopped vmare from running as it needed to write something to the file. I got around this my moving the vmware directory somewhere else on the same file system. Then with recursion turned on copied it back. All but the corrupt file went back, after a bit of messing around So I am up and running again. Almost forgot the FS is reiserfs over a 3 disk raid 5 array with lvm over the top of that just for good measure.

But this is now bugging me

Thought someone out there might like to solve this puzzle. Fdisk, format etc does not count as an answer!!!

[tamoneya]

what about

sudo ls -la

[Zafrusteria]

The problem is root does not have permission to do anythingto the filke either

$ sudo ls -la
ls: cannot access objects: Permission denied
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  72 2008-08-04 13:34 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 112 2008-08-04 14:18 ..
?????????? ? ?    ?      ?                ? objects

[tamoneya]

okay well thats pretty interesting. Why dont you pop in the liveCD and mount the drive and then rm it from there.

[Zafrusteria]

I hadn't thought of that. Now, I just need to figure out how to mount the RAID5 and LVM parts from the live CD or a system rescue disk.

[tamoneya]

is it a hardware or software raid?

[Zafrusteria]

it is software raid. I configured it when as I did the last complete install with the ALT install CD.

[tamoneya]

okay thats pretty similar to my setup. I just use the scan option in mdadm. It auto detects my RAID 5 config and lets me mount /dev/md0. This is in the 8.04 liveCD.

[bingoUV]

Anything in dmesg after "ls -la" ?

[Zafrusteria]

nope nothing gets added to the the output of dmesg.