Andreas Dilger wrote: > > root ~ #lsattr /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm > > s-S-adAc-D---- /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm > > > > - there is no "i" attribute > > But there appears to be an "append-only" (a) attribute. > > Try doing "chattr = /var/lib/dpkg/info/groff.postrm", which will turn > off all of the ext2 attributes. Thanks, it works fine now, I didn't know about the other attributes, no idea how they were set, probably just some hard drive corruption. Alain