I am seeing the same corruption on two Ubuntu 7.10 systems, but for me it happens whenever I do a recursive chmod -R on a directory. Afterwards, the ls command shows everything inside the directory as corrupted with question marks:
$ mkdir abc $ mkdir abc/aaa $ mkdir abc/bbb $ mkdir abc/ccc $ touch abc/zzz $ ls -l abc total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 shawn shawn 4096 2008-02-23 07:23 aaa/ drwxr-xr-x 2 shawn shawn 4096 2008-02-23 07:23 bbb/ drwxr-xr-x 2 shawn shawn 4096 2008-02-23 07:23 ccc/ -rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 0 2008-02-23 07:23 zzz $ chmod -R 660 abc chmod: `abc': Permission denied $ ls -l abc total 0 ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? abc/aaa ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? abc/bbb ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? abc/ccc ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? abc/zzz -- corrupt file ownership & permissions on recursive coreutils https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188403 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
