Can't remove empty directory

Guillermo Garcia-Rojas garciarojas at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 15:31:32 PDT 2005


move it, I just had an issue like that

cd /usr/ports/accessibility
mv gail gail2 (in example)

then you cvsup the ports again and it's done.

On 4/12/05, Robert Marella <rmarella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I think this problem occurred during "portmanager -u" but I can't be
> certain. Portmanager  did a core dump this morning. I tried a portsclean
> -CD and /usr/ports/accessibility/gail/work cannot be removed. Here is
> what I have tried.
> 
> p4# cd /usr/ports/accessibility/gail
> p4# ls -l
> total 14
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   920 Apr 12 02:21 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   109 Apr 12 02:21 distinfo
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Nov 10 20:16 files
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   211 Apr  4  2004 pkg-descr
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2667 Apr 12 02:21 pkg-plist
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Apr 12 10:06 work
> p4# rm -r work
> rm: work/gail-1.8.3/gail: Directory not empty
> rm: work/gail-1.8.3: Directory not empty
> rm: work: Directory not empty
> p4# cd work/gail-1.8.3/gail/
> p4# ls -la
> total 0
> p4# cd ..
> p4# ls -la
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  1024 Apr 12 10:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Apr 12 10:06 ..
> drwxr--r--  4 root  wheel     0 Apr 12 09:51 gail
> p4# chflags -R noschg gail
> p4# rm -r gail
> rm: gail: Directory not empty
> p4# rm gail
> rm: gail: is a directory
> p4# rmdir gail
> rmdir: gail: Directory not empty
> p4#
> 
> The obvious problem is that the number of links is incorrect but I don't
> know how to make that right.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Robert
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