On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:29:57PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +0000, P Kirk wrote: >> install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted > >Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: >"The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath does not support the creation >of hard links." and "oldpath is a directory.". > >What does "ls -ld /usr/info/dir" say?
[~]: ls -ld /usr/info/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 10:23 /usr/info// [~]: ls -la /usr/info/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 10:23 ./ drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Nov 6 15:33 ../ -rw-rw-rw- 2 root root 0 Nov 9 09:33 dir -rw-rw-rw- 2 root root 0 Nov 9 09:33 dir.lock /usr/info/dir was indeed a directory. I had mkdir-ed info and info/dir to try and make this thing work. I've deleted it and now touch-ed info/dir Still doesn't work though. New file access log attached...I Control-C-ed at 6537 as it hangs there indefinitely. Please let me know what you think. Patrick
