Re: [SLE] Permission "problem" with a file in /var/lib/YaST2

On Thursday 18 November 2004 19:09, Steve Kratz wrote:

/var/lib/YaST2/ppd_db.ycp - This file exists, but even an "ls" yields a permission denied message.

As root, I cant chmod it to anything, chown it to root, nothing.

1 - What is this file, and 2 - Why is it so well protected from being viewed?

If even as root 'ls' returns permission problems, odds are very high you have a corrupted partition. Did you recently have a crash? I would reboot to the rescue system on the CD/DVD and run an fsck on the partition if I were you, perhaps "reiserfsck --fix-fixable"