Re: Permission denied !? - will i ever update my system again ?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Ed Tomlinson wrote:

>To me, it looks like you have fs corruption...  You can try a reboot as see
>if it fixes the problem (bet it will not).   You have three options.  First is to
>live with the problem.  Second is to update reiserfsck to the latest and run
>reiserfsck - I have used this option many times and its has worked well.  The
>third option is to backup, recreate the fs, and restore.
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>If I were you I would backup anything critical, update reiserfsck run it.
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>Ed Tomlinson
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>On July 17, 2002 05:54 pm, Moritz Angermann wrote:
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>>well
>>hi all,
>>now after using reiserFS for a very long term without any problems
>>i'm facing a totaly new one and i'm helpless.
>>the problem is, while apt-get dist-upgrade, you all know this
>>command,[or not]
>>i get :
>>can't access ./usr/include/arpa/telnet.h (...): permission denied
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>>so i did ls -lah /usr/include/arpa/
>>the result : ( as root )
>>---
>>#>ls -lah /usr/include/arpa/
>>ls: /usr/include/arpa/telnet.h: Permission denied
>>ls: /usr/include/arpa/tftp.h: Permission denied
>>insgesamt 51K
>>drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          181 2002-07-17 23:21 .
>>drwxr-xr-x   92 root     root         6.2K 2002-07-17 23:21 ..
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3.4K 2002-06-24 18:57 ftp.h
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4.3K 2002-06-24 18:57 inet.h
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5.9K 2002-06-24 18:57
>>nameser_compat.h
>>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          20K 2002-06-24 18:57 nameser.h
>>(root@prototype/Wed Jul 17//home/cone/4)
>>#>
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>>doesn't look any good, does it !? ...
>>so i tryed my HD-vendors tool.
>>WesternDigital...
>>but it told me my disk was 100% ok.
>>( it did also tell me a while ago, my dist had errors, so it corrected
>>em, awesome tool :p )
>>---
>>but now, what can i do about it ? reiserfsck ? well it keeps telling me
>>about unsable and i shall not use it ...
>>
>>so any ideas ?
>>
>>thanks.
>>
>>-moritz
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You don't mention what kernel you are running, but if you are running 
something older than 2.4.18 you should get 2.4.18.  

Hans

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Hans