[mythtv-users] Permission denied to ls for root?

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 01:56:21 UTC 2006


On 7/14/06, Ryan Steffes <rbsteffes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/14/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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> > On 07/14/2006 09:31 PM, Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> > > On 7/14/06, *Ryan Steffes* <rbsteffes at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:rbsteffes at gmail.com >> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I've never seen ls do this before, at least, not for root.  Any
> > >     idea what could cause it?
> > >
> > >     # ls
> > >     ls: 1036_20060417230000_20060417233000.nuv.png: Permission denied
> > >     ls: 1056_20060610130000.mpg: Permission denied
> > >     ls: 1006_20050920213000_20050920220000.nuv.png: Permission denied
> > >     ls: 1013_20060420201900_20060420203000.nuv: Permission denied
> > >     ls: 1003_20060419220000_20060419230000.nuv.png: Permission denied
> > >
> > >     Can't delete em, look at em, touch em, chmod em, or chown em, even
> > >     as root.  It's odd.
> > >
> > >
> > > Are these files on a remote NFS share?   If so, that's not unusual.
> > > Root is usually mapped to "nobody" on remote NFS servers.
> >
> > Or, it could happen because of a stale NFS file handle (fixable by
> > unmounting/remounting).
> >
> > Mike
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> It appears the answer I may have to go with is some sort of corruption in
> the file system.  I'm CCing this to the reiserfs list, since that's what the
> partition is.  On reboot, the partition starts to load, and hangs up on
> "Checking Internal Tree.." and gets no further.
>
> Any suggestions on how to recover without losing all my data?
>
> Ryan
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After rebooting about ten more times, all with lock ups, it suddenly sailed
through the mounting with no problems.  That concerns me, since I sincerely
doubt it just magically fixed something.  What, if anything, should I do at
this point?

Ryan
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