Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files in OOo build?

[Mick]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Mick schrieb:
> > On Sunday 28 October 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> Dan Farrell schrieb:
> >>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:56:50 +0000
> >>>
> >>> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>
> >>>> After a mammoth session on an old machine, which crashed, I ended up
> >>>> with these files that refuse to be deleted:
> >>>> ===============================================================
> >>>> #
> >>>> ls
> >>>> -la
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/ ls: cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen.libhyphen680li_1.cmd:
> >>>> Permission denied ls: cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen_dflt_version.c: Permission
> >>>> denied ls: cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/guesslang_dflt_version.c: Permission
> >>>> denied
> >>>> ls: cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen680li.def: Permission denied
> >>>> ls: cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/libmythes.cmd: Permission denied ls:
> >>>> cannot
> >>>> access
> >>>> /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.0/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m5/
> >>>>li ngucomponent/unxlngi6.pro/misc/hyphen_hyphen680li.map: Permission
> >>>> denied total 0
> >>>> drwxr-xr-- 2 portage portage 280 Oct 28 09:38 .
> >>>> drwxr-xr-- 4 portage portage  96 Oct 28 09:38 ..
> >>>> ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ? guesslang_dflt_version.c
> >>>> ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >>>> hyphen.libhyphen680li_1.cmd ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?
> >>>> ? hyphen680li.def ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >>>> hyphen_dflt_version.c ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >>>> hyphen_hyphen680li.map ?????????? ? ?       ?         ?            ?
> >>>> libmythes.cmd
> >>>> ===============================================================
> >>>>
> >>>> (the "?" symbols are shown like this on my terminal too).
> >>>>
> >>>> I am about to start a new emerge of OOo, but would think that I
> >>>> should first remove this mess just to be sure.  How do I do that?
> >>>> Tried chmod and chown. The files are owned by portage:portage, but
> >>>> chmod-ing them fails.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if you could clear out all of /var/tmp?  I'm not sure if
> >>> that's unsafe or not...
> >>
> >> ccache uses /var/tmp/ccache
> >
> > I think my problem is that I cannot delete these files, either
> > individually or by deleting the parent directory.  Is there a way I could
> > force-delete them?
>
> That sounds like file system corruption.
> Try to boot from a live cd and run fsck. Don't forget that the partition
> needs to be unmounted and you might need to apply -f to your fsck command.

Thanks, I'll have a go with an old LiveCD, but I am bit concerned that this 
the third time in as many months that this old box is suffering fs corruption 
(I think it has been different partition each time).  It's either excessive 
fragmentation, or I should install smartmontools to check if one of the 
drives is on its way out.
-- 
Regards,
Mick