cant delete file as root?

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 5/18/06, Mathias Menzel-Nielsen <matze at matzsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi

Hello,

>
> Could someone explain me whats going on here?

Who can say...

>
> 8<--8<
> hyperkobold# rm -f /lib/libpthread.so.2
> rm: /lib/libpthread.so.2: Operation not permitted
>
> hyperkobold# ls -lah /lib/libpthread.so.2
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   159K  1 Mai 23:53 /lib/libpthread.so.2
>
> hyperkobold# chmod u+rw /lib/libpthread.so.2
> chmod: /lib/libpthread.so.2: Operation not permitted
>
> hyperkobold# stat /lib/libpthread.so.2
> 103 1012779 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4050520 162688 "May 18 01:36:33
> 2006" "May  1 23:53:56 2006" "May  1 23:53:56 2006" "May  1 23:53:56
> 2006" 4096 320 0x20000 /lib/libpthread.so.2
> 8<--8<

Try:

# chflags nouchg /lib/libpthread.so.2
# rm /lib/libpthread.so.2

or post the output of
$ ls -lo /lib/libpthread.so.2


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