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Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:45:46 +0100

Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> wrote:
> I sometimes get the following error:
>
> courge:~/software>  \rm -r zsh-4.3.2
> rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil..o': No such file or directory
> rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil.export': No such file or 
> directory
> rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil.so': No such file or directory
> zsh: exit 1
>
> where the directory is under NFS. This is a Linux/x86_64 machine
> (Debian/testing).
>
> And after that:
>
> courge:~/software> ll zsh-4.3.2/Src
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 vlefevre lip 8192 2007-03-05 15:18:07 Modules/
> ?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/Makefile

Thanks for the report.

What version of coreutils are you using?
>From the output, I'll bet it is not new.

Can you reproduce the problem using the latest snapshot?

  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.8+.tar.gz

or with one of these?

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.8.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.7.tar.gz




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