From: Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:34:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=GkZGjSYnq8T4+BuXRhuJPr9DRAUJ5rRQHsApq@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007291431.16742.wonko@wonkology.org>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:31, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
fsck -f followed by use of USB-SATA bridge seems to work. However, my
laptop just died, so I can't really test it on the laptop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-30 5:35 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
2010-07-30 5:34 ` Andrey Vul [this message]
2010-07-30 5:37 ` Andrey Vul
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