Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:49:39 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -f doesn't delete symlink: Sollution Message-ID: <45870CF3.2040503@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061218212252.9851EE0647@smtp1.galnet.dk> References: <20061217203138.EFA38E0625@smtp1.galnet.dk> <4585B030.3090809@u.washington.edu> <20061217211130.EC1C8E0600@smtp1.galnet.dk> <4585CD84.4060807@u.washington.edu> <20061218073239.E9100E05B3@smtp1.galnet.dk> <4586535F.5040806@u.washington.edu> <20061218212252.9851EE0647@smtp1.galnet.dk>
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Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: > At 09:37 18-12-2006, you wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: >> > At 00:06 18-12-2006, you wrote: >> >> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: >> >>> At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote: >> >>>> Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Hi, >> >>>>> I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld >> >>>>> it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the >> >>>>> error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. >> >>>>> But this doesn't delete the symlink. >> >>>>> No flags are set on /sys. >> >>>>> Anybody got any idea what is wrong? >> >>>>> Thanks. >> >>>>> Jeppe > Thanks again for your help. > > I finally found the - of course very simple - sollution my self. It > was rm that was corrupt. Luckily I has another server with FreeBSD, so > I used lftp to copy rm to /bin - and now it works again. Only I wonder > what other important files are corrupted - and how this happened... > > Jeppe No softupdates on /? I noticed that that particular item wasn't turned on by default when I recently redid my machine. I wonder why unlink didn't work though, because I thought rm depended on unlink. Hmm.. -Garrett
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