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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:31:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007291431.16742.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i2rodj$1im$1@dough.gmane.org>

walt writes:

> On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
> > /tmp/foo =>  strerror(ENOENT)).
> > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.

Are all these directories located on the root file system?

> Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?
> 
> drwxrwxrwt  26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/
>           ^

Well, it set or not, this would not prevent the creation of files.

I have no idea what's going on here. I'd force a fsck (touch /forcefsck; 
reboot) to make sure it's no file system problem. And what about a live-
cd, does the problem happen then, too?

	Wonko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 20:20 [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file Andrey Vul
2010-07-28 20:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-28 22:11   ` Bill Longman
2010-07-29  0:23     ` [gentoo-user] " Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 12:56       ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 13:00         ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-29 11:24 ` walt
2010-07-29 12:10   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-29 12:31   ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2010-07-30  5:34     ` Andrey Vul
2010-07-30  5:37       ` Andrey Vul

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