Cannot delete stubborn files

[Jack Stone]

>From: Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com>
>To: "Jack Stone" <antennex at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:40:22 -0400
>
>"Jack Stone" <antennex at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >From: Chris Hill <chris at monochrome.org>
> > >To: Jack Stone <antennex at hotmail.com>
> > >CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> > >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > >On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Jack Stone wrote:
> > >
> > >>I have 2 files that resists all efforts to delete them.
> > >
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >>Here are the files and the error message:
> > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm: Operation not 
>permitted
> > >>rm: local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm: Operation not permitted
> > >
> > >Make sure the files do not have the system immutable flag set:
> > >
> > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Hostname.pm
> > ># chflags noschg local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/Sys/Syslog.pm
> > >
> > >...and then see if you can't delete them. I don't know why the flag 
>would
> > >be set, but it's something to try.
> > >
> > >HTH.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org
> >
> > Chris: Tried that at the very first. No joy!
>
>If flags and permissions are all set so that the files should delete, and
>they still don't, reboot the system into single user mode and fsck the
>partition.
>
>I had this happen a number of years ago.  We had dirty power and the system
>would reboot on occasion during brownout.  We finally got UPS on the 
>system,
>but months later we had files that wouldn't delete.  The only way we 
>finally
>got rid of them was to reboot in single user and fsck.  I expect the disk
>suffered some subtle corruption during an unclean boot and it took time
>before we noticed.
>
>Another option would be to use fstat to make sure nothing has the files 
>open.
>
>HTH.
>
>--
>Bill Moran
>

Hi, Bill: Yes, tried all of that before and again no joy -- very mysteries.
A free cigar to anyone who solves this one!

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