Hi,
sorry for the long mail but I'm really in an emergency and have no enought
specific knowledge to understand what is happening.
situation
=========
I have a samba server (debian etch, kernel 2.6.26) on which a user
'silvia' has a profile that got corrupted in some way (see below). I
wanted to get rid of the files but there is no way to delete them:
srv-: # ll
total 16
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? compreg.dat
drwxrwsr-x+ 2 silvia amministrazione 6 2007-06-08 18:33 extensions
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? extensions.rdf
drwxrwsr-x+ 3 silvia amministrazione 46 2007-10-31 16:16 ImapMail
-rwx------ 1 mauro amministrazione 62 2007-03-28 15:53 impab.mab
drwxrwsr-x+ 3 silvia amministrazione 26 2007-06-08 18:34 Mail
srv-: # rm compreg.dat
rm: cannot remove `compreg.dat': No such file or directory
I hava already used fsck (clean filesystem) and fsck -f (FILESYSTEM
MODIFIED, but I think is just becouse it added lost+found)
if I look for all files I obtain:
# find ! -user silvia -ls
find: ./guhdjtzd.default/extensions.rdf: No such file or directory
find: ./guhdjtzd.default/extensions.rdf: No such file or directory
53348196 4 -rwx------ 1 mauro amministrazione 62 Mar 28 2007 ./guhdjtzd.default/impab.mab
find: ./guhdjtzd.default/compreg.dat: No such file or directory
find: ./guhdjtzd.default/compreg.dat: No such file or directory
copying files
==============
I also tried to copy using 'cp -a dir_with_corrupetd_file /tmp' and I
ended up
1. filling the / (It was way too big -- / is a diffrent filesystem/disk)
2. a directory that cannot be deleted:
srv-fossati:/tmp/pappo# rm -Rf M
rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `M': Exec format error
orign of these file
====================
Just in case it is of any help to diagnose the problem, the corrupted file
have a very strange origin: they where found there with ownership
'postfix' in a folder of the profile of 'silvia' in a directory of
Thunderbird settings: at that moment (apart from the ownership that was
not easy to explain) I could read the file (a normal mail message). What
was strance was that I could see 2 occurrencies of that file using 'ls -l'
so that I thought there was some unprintable char in the name and decided
to delete it. After the attempt to delete it I obtained the situation
described above.
What now?
=========
I'm really lost. I don't have *any* idea of how to repare the filesystem
or what can be the cause: virus? memory corruption on server (I tested it
10 day ago due to some strange freeze, but resulted no error in 24 hours
of memtest), controller (/ and /home are on different controllers).
I'd be really thankfull for any possible hint
Thanks in advance
sandro
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