GNU bug report logs - #14951
Cannot rm file

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From: "ryan.fox <at> bell.ca" <ryan.fox <at> bell.ca>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Cannot rm file
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:03:10 -0400

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Cannot delete file:

# rm web.process.heartbeat
rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
# rm -f web.process.heartbeat
# ll
ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
total 0
?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat

Any idea?

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: "ryan.fox <at> bell.ca" <ryan.fox <at> bell.ca>
Cc: 14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14951: Cannot rm file
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:20:52 +0100

tag 14951 notabug
close 14951
stop

On 07/25/2013 04:03 PM, ryan.fox <at> bell.ca wrote:
> Cannot delete file:
> 
> # rm web.process.heartbeat
> rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
> # rm -f web.process.heartbeat
> # ll
> ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
> total 0
> ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat

Notice the "? " at the start of the file name.
Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name.
`ls -lb` might indicate better what the chars are,
and you could use ctrl-v to input literal controls chars
as arguments to rm. Alternatively you may prefer
to graphically select the file for deletion with xdg-open .

thanks,
Pádraig.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: "ryan.fox <at> bell.ca" <ryan.fox <at> bell.ca>, 14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14951: Cannot rm file
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:18:46 +0200

Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:

> On 07/25/2013 04:03 PM, ryan.fox <at> bell.ca wrote:
>> Cannot delete file:
>> 
>> # rm web.process.heartbeat
>> rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
>> # rm -f web.process.heartbeat
>> # ll
>> ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
>> total 0
>> ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat
>
> Notice the "? " at the start of the file name.
> Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name.

I don't think so, it's rather the unknown date.

Andreas.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "ryan.fox <at> bell.ca" <ryan.fox <at> bell.ca>, 14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14951: Cannot rm file
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:31:33 +0100

On 07/25/2013 07:18 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
> 
>> On 07/25/2013 04:03 PM, ryan.fox <at> bell.ca wrote:
>>> Cannot delete file:
>>>
>>> # rm web.process.heartbeat
>>> rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
>>> # rm -f web.process.heartbeat
>>> # ll
>>> ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
>>> total 0
>>> ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat
>>
>> Notice the "? " at the start of the file name.
>> Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name.
> 
> I don't think so, it's rather the unknown date.

Yes probably. Not sure how I missed the other ? :)
Still seems like an issue outside of rm.
I'd suggest running a check on your file system.

thanks,
Pádraig.

Message #17 received at 14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "ryan.fox <at> bell.ca" <ryan.fox <at> bell.ca>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Andreas Schwab
 <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#14951: Cannot rm file
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:56:02 -0400

Thanks Guys,
Yes it seems like a rogue process that I can't track down.  The PID is changing every second.  I ran: find / -nouser -print , it will shows the following:

find / -nouser -print
find: `/opt/arcsight/logger/data/pgsql/global/pgstat.stat': No such file or directory
find: `/opt/arcsight/web/tmp/default/web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/6044/task/6044/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/6044/task/6044/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/6044/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `/proc/6044/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory

Likely not an rm issue...

-----Original Message-----
From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:P <at> draigBrady.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:32 PM
To: Andreas Schwab
Cc: Fox, Ryan (0803406); 14951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14951: Cannot rm file

On 07/25/2013 07:18 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
> 
>> On 07/25/2013 04:03 PM, ryan.fox <at> bell.ca wrote:
>>> Cannot delete file:
>>>
>>> # rm web.process.heartbeat
>>> rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
>>> # rm -f web.process.heartbeat
>>> # ll
>>> ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
>>> total 0
>>> ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat
>>
>> Notice the "? " at the start of the file name.
>> Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name.
> 
> I don't think so, it's rather the unknown date.

Yes probably. Not sure how I missed the other ? :)
Still seems like an issue outside of rm.
I'd suggest running a check on your file system.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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