On Sunday 17 July 2005 02:48, Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group;
What the heck (cleaned up ) is causing SuSE to tell me as root (not "su") that I don't have permission to install a program. I then do "l /usr/lib/directory" and get "Permission denied" "root" installed it and is trying to "l" it.
I am about ready to dump SuSE if this kind of problem persist
It is like a hidden set of permissions.
Classic signs of a corrupted file system. There are ways to deny root permissions on objects, but if you (the administrator) don't know about it, then I can almost guarantee it hasn't been done. Boot the rescue system and run reiserfsck on your partition (I'm guessing you're running reiser. So far every instance of file system corruption that I've seen that didn't involve a system crash has been in reiser)