Hi, I get the error "Operation not permitted" when I try to delete a file as root, see some commands below. - there is no "i" attribute - it's a problem with the files and not the upper directories since I can delete a similar file in the same directory - fsck -f doesn't find any error on the partition - the partition is mounted rw If this is not the right place to submit this bug because it's a kernel bug or if you need further information, tell me. Thanks Alain root ~ #stat /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm File: "/var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm" Size: 202 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 Regular File Device: 1606h/5638d Inode: 48907 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: Tue Jan 29 08:50:53 2002 Modify: Tue Jan 15 01:25:56 2002 Change: Sun Mar 31 20:12:30 2002 root ~ #lsattr /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm s-S-adAc-D---- /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm root ~ #rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm rm: cannot unlink `/var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm': Operation not permitted root ~ #rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/zsh.postrm root ~ #mount | grep " /var" /dev/hdc6 on /var type ext3 (rw)