Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

[Alex Schuster]

walt writes:

> On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
> > /tmp/foo =>  strerror(ENOENT)).
> > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.

Are all these directories located on the root file system?

> Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?
>
> drwxrwxrwt  26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/
>           ^

Well, it set or not, this would not prevent the creation of files.

I have no idea what's going on here. I'd force a fsck (touch /forcefsck; 
reboot) to make sure it's no file system problem. And what about a live-
cd, does the problem happen then, too?

	Wonko