Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/11/17 20:11, Neal Becker wrote: >> Since last boot, I've got this strange symptom. Filesystem is btrfs. If >> I list my home dir with dired under emacs I see: >> >> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 nbecker nbecker 207 Dec 3 2015 BACKUP.sh >> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history >> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history >> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history >> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history >> >> Attempt to list with ls gives: >> /usr/bin/ls: cannot access '/home/nbecker/./.bash_history': No such >> file >> or directory >> >> >> I think this means there is a directory entry, but the file doesn't >> exist? >> Any suggestion to most reliably repair the damage? I don't care about >> losing the content of this file. > > > I assume you're executing the commands as yourself. If you "su -" and > become root do you see any difference? > > No, same result as root sudo ls -la . [sudo] password for nbecker: ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory total 11548 ... -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history ... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
