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Hello, I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a file my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls -l shows ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf How can I remove the my.cnf ? rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" Thanks Phil

On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:54, Philipp Kraus conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.misc... > Hello, > > I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a > file my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls > -l shows > > ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start > -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf > > How can I remove the my.cnf ? > rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" Looks like a damaged filesystem to me, and repairing the filesystem would probably get rid of that "ghost file". Had any power outages or other unclean shutdowns lately? See any weird messages about the hard disk or disk controller in the output of dmesg or in "/var/log/messages"? What does... ls -li /etc/mysql/ .... say? (Hint: The first column will show the inode number for each entry.) -- = Aragorn = (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

On 2011-10-27 17:03:40 +0200, Aragorn said: > On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:54, Philipp Kraus conveyed the following > to comp.os.linux.misc... > >> Hello, >> >> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a >> file my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls >> -l shows >> >> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start >> -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf >> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >> >> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" > > Looks like a damaged filesystem to me, and repairing the filesystem > would probably get rid of that "ghost file". Had any power outages or > other unclean shutdowns lately? I Think also but this file exists after I create the virtual machine from the images of my distributer, so the file is within the image > See any weird messages about the hard > disk or disk controller in the output of dmesg or in > "/var/log/messages"? > > What does... > > ls -li /etc/mysql/ > > ... say? Shows the list with: ls: cannot access my.cnf: No such file or directory total 16 131045730 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d 131045811 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start 131045822 -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf 131046035 ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf 131045834 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3564 Feb 10 2011 my.cnf.dpkg-new Thx Phil

On 2011-10-27, Philipp Kraus wrote: > Hello, > > I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a file > my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls -l > shows > > ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start > -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf > > How can I remove the my.cnf ? > rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" rm /etc/mysql/*my.cnf* -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Philipp Kraus wrote: > On 2011-10-27 17:03:40 +0200, Aragorn said: > >> On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:54, Philipp Kraus conveyed the following >> to comp.os.linux.misc... >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a >>> file my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls >>> -l shows >>> >>> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory >>> total 16 >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start >>> -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf >>> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >>> >>> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >>> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" >> >> Looks like a damaged filesystem to me, and repairing the filesystem >> would probably get rid of that "ghost file". Had any power outages or >> other unclean shutdowns lately? > > I Think also but this file exists after I create the virtual machine > from the > images of my distributer, so the file is within the image > > >> See any weird messages about the hard >> disk or disk controller in the output of dmesg or in >> "/var/log/messages"? >> >> What does... >> >> ls -li /etc/mysql/ >> >> ... say? > > Shows the list with: > ls: cannot access my.cnf: No such file or directory > total 16 > 131045730 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d > 131045811 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start > 131045822 -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf > 131046035 ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf > 131045834 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3564 Feb 10 2011 my.cnf.dpkg-new > > Thx > Phil > That looks like a directory entry pointing nowhere to me. single user and fsck it.

On Thursday 27 October 2011 17:34, Philipp Kraus conveyed the following to comp.os.linux.misc... > On 2011-10-27 17:03:40 +0200, Aragorn said: > >> On Thursday 27 October 2011 16:54, Philipp Kraus conveyed the >> following to comp.os.linux.misc... >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a >>> file my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A >>> ls -l shows >>> >>> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory >>> total 16 >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d >>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start >>> -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf >>> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >>> >>> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >>> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" >> >> Looks like a damaged filesystem to me, and repairing the filesystem >> would probably get rid of that "ghost file". Had any power outages >> or other unclean shutdowns lately? > > I Think also but this file exists after I create the virtual machine > from the images of my distributer, so the file is within the image Then you must run fsck on the image file, just as if it were a block device, and while it is _not_ mounted into the virtual machine or via loopback. >> What does... >> >> ls -li /etc/mysql/ >> >> ... say? > > Shows the list with: > ls: cannot access my.cnf: No such file or directory > total 16 > 131045730 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d > 131045811 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start > 131045822 -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf > 131046035 ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf > 131045834 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3564 Feb 10 2011 my.cnf.dpkg-new If the image came from your distributor, then they've probably created it off of a corrupted filesystem. You should bring this matter to their attention, because other people may be experiencing the same problem, and who knows whatever else the distributor may have screwed up. -- = Aragorn = (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> writes: >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start >> -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf >> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >> >> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" > > rm /etc/mysql/*my.cnf* I would first run fsck on that partition. Chances are something is screwed up. Vilmos

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:49:40 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On 2011-10-27, Philipp Kraus wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a file >> my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls -l >> shows >> >> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root >> 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 >> debian.cnf ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >> >> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" > > rm /etc/mysql/*my.cnf* That might work. Might also cause him more problems... Can't explain what is going on here, but I have a similar file on my system. On Fedora 13... Logged in as me: $ ls -al .... drwxr-xr-x. 11 kevin kevin 4096 Oct 25 01:18 .gnome2 drwx------. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Aug 4 2010 .gnome2_private drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Sep 7 16:40 .gstreamer-0.10 -rw-rw-r--. 1 kevin kevin 137 Oct 30 00:54 .gtk-bookmarks drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Mar 15 2011 guns dr-x------. 2 kevin kevin 0 Oct 30 00:54 .gvfs -rw-------. 1 kevin kevin 37836 Oct 30 00:54 .ICEauthority .... Logged in as root: # ls -al .... drwxr-xr-x. 11 kevin kevin 4096 Oct 25 01:18 .gnome2 drwx------. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Aug 4 2010 .gnome2_private drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Sep 7 16:40 .gstreamer-0.10 -rw-rw-r--. 1 kevin kevin 137 Oct 30 00:54 .gtk-bookmarks drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Mar 15 2011 guns d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs -rw-------. 1 kevin kevin 37836 Oct 30 00:54 .ICEauthority .... That directory, .gvfs, exists on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 also, but has drwx------. permissions. Notice how when logged in as user kevin (i.e. me), the listing shows up as "normal", but when logged in as root it looks "wrong". Also on Fedora 15 as root, the directory entry appears normal with ls -al. I'm confused... According to the rpm package: Description : The gvfs package provides backend implementations for the gio framework in GLib. It includes ftp, sftp, cifs. I can't explain what is happening, nor why. Just that a directory entry like this is NOT necessarily a sign that something is wrong. Looks like it is NOP (Normal Operating Procedure) for some things...

On 10/30/2011 02:49 AM, Kevin Snodgrass wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:49:40 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > >> On 2011-10-27, Philipp Kraus wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a file >>> my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls -l >>> shows >>> >>> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory total 16 >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root >>> 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 >>> debian.cnf ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >>> >>> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >>> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" >> >> rm /etc/mysql/*my.cnf* > > That might work. Might also cause him more problems... > > Can't explain what is going on here, but I have a similar file on my > system. On Fedora 13... > > Logged in as me: > $ ls -al > .... > drwxr-xr-x. 11 kevin kevin 4096 Oct 25 01:18 .gnome2 > drwx------. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Aug 4 2010 .gnome2_private > drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Sep 7 16:40 .gstreamer-0.10 > -rw-rw-r--. 1 kevin kevin 137 Oct 30 00:54 .gtk-bookmarks > drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Mar 15 2011 guns > dr-x------. 2 kevin kevin 0 Oct 30 00:54 .gvfs > -rw-------. 1 kevin kevin 37836 Oct 30 00:54 .ICEauthority > .... > > Logged in as root: > # ls -al > .... > drwxr-xr-x. 11 kevin kevin 4096 Oct 25 01:18 .gnome2 > drwx------. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Aug 4 2010 .gnome2_private > drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Sep 7 16:40 .gstreamer-0.10 > -rw-rw-r--. 1 kevin kevin 137 Oct 30 00:54 .gtk-bookmarks > drwxrwxr-x. 2 kevin kevin 4096 Mar 15 2011 guns > d?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs > -rw-------. 1 kevin kevin 37836 Oct 30 00:54 .ICEauthority > .... > > That directory, .gvfs, exists on Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04 also, but has > drwx------. permissions. Notice how when logged in as user kevin (i.e. > me), the listing shows up as "normal", but when logged in as root it > looks "wrong". Also on Fedora 15 as root, the directory entry appears > normal with ls -al. I'm confused... The .gvfs directory is special. If you look at the output from the 'mount' command (with no arguments), you'll see that there is a gvfs-fuse-daemon pseudo-filesystem mounted there. That file system can be accessed only by the owner. Even root cannot stat() the inode. There was probably a "Permission denied" message produced when you tried that as root. -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:06:43 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > The .gvfs directory is special. If you look at the output from the > 'mount' command (with no arguments), you'll see that there is a > gvfs-fuse-daemon pseudo-filesystem mounted there. That file system can > be accessed only by the owner. Even root cannot stat() the inode. > There was probably a "Permission denied" message produced when you tried > that as root. All true. But I still don't understand what this does, nor what it's purpose in life is... "vfs" is obviously "virtual file system"... Is this something to make Linux more "winders-y" ?

Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> writes: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:06:43 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: >> The .gvfs directory is special. If you look at the output from the >> 'mount' command (with no arguments), you'll see that there is a >> gvfs-fuse-daemon pseudo-filesystem mounted there. That file system >> can be accessed only by the owner. Even root cannot stat() the >> inode. There was probably a "Permission denied" message produced >> when you tried that as root. > > All true. But I still don't understand what this does, nor what it's > purpose in life is... "vfs" is obviously "virtual file system"... It allows use of GVFS[1] outside of the Gnome libraries. It's almost certainly a red herring regarding the original question, which is most likely due to a corrupted filesystem. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS > Is this something to make Linux more "winders-y" ? No. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> writes: > On 2011-10-27, Philipp Kraus wrote: >> I'm installing a new virtual server and in my /etc/mysql path is a file >> my.cnf stored, which is not accessable with the root- user. A ls -l >> shows >> >> ls: cannot access /etc/mysql/my.cnf: No such file or directory >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 27 15:25 conf.d >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1198 Jul 20 2010 debian-start >> -rw------- 1 root root 333 Jul 20 2010 debian.cnf >> ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? my.cnf >> >> How can I remove the my.cnf ? >> rm, touch shows "No such file or directory" > > rm /etc/mysql/*my.cnf* Adding in pointless wildcard characters will not make it any more deletable. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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