More likely, Thomas, he has a problem with his hardware. It
sounds like his file system is hosed completely. I had this
problem long ago with an Adaptec SCSI card back when the 2940
was a brandy spanky new product. It could not exist in a
system that also had IDE disks. The IDE transfers would get
corrupted randomly and infrequently. It was a bear to track
down. And it eventually left my file system corrupted more or
less the way he describes. I have seen this sort of corruption
since then once or twice. It was always related to either
bad hardware or playing with experimental kernels.
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Molina" <tmolina@copper.net>
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, LaJchon McRight wrote:
>
> > I am trying to reinstall kernel-pcmcia-cs. I was able to remove the rpm
> > package but when I reinstall it I am unable to replace /sbin/cardctl. I
> > check the permissions and the user and group permissions aren't root but
> > a bunch of numbers.
> >
> > My question is how do I remove a file that does not have root
> > permissions. I've tried su with not success.
>
> Sounds like your file permissions got scrambled and the file may have the
> immutable bit set. As root do the following to clear the file and make it
> deletable:
>
> chattr -i <filename>
>
> man chattr for a discussion of file attributes.
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