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Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty |
Date: |
Thu, 07 May 2009 08:02:24 +0200 |
l l wrote:
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> bash-4.0$ find coreutils-7.3/lib/
> coreutils-7.3/lib/
> bash-4.0$
>
> here is the result:
This strace output is consistent with what you've been reporting:
[though the two consecutive "close(4) = 0" lines are odd.
Did you edit the output? ]
> execve("/bin/rm", ["rm", "-rf", "coreutils-7.3"], [/* 34 vars */]) = 0
...
> openat(3, "lib", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOFOLLOW) = 4
> getdents64(4, /* 2 entries */, 4096) = 48
> getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
> fcntl(4, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
> openat(4, "..", O_RDONLY) = 3
> close(4) = 0
>
> close(4) = 0
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> unlinkat(3, "lib", AT_REMOVEDIR) = -1 ENOTEMPTY (Directory not empty)
rm found lib/ to be empty, yet an attempt to unlink it failed with ENOTEMPTY.
So maybe something created a file in lib/ between the getdents64
and unlinkat calls.
If you have root access, try running lsof (look up options)
to see if any files under your coreutils-7.3/lib directory are open.
And I should have asked before: what distro, kernel and libc versions
are you using?
- rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, binutils, 2009/05/02
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, Matthew Woehlke, 2009/05/04
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, Mike Frysinger, 2009/05/04
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/05
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, l l, 2009/05/05
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/06
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, l l, 2009/05/06
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, l l, 2009/05/07
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, l l, 2009/05/07
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, l l, 2009/05/08
- Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty, Jim Meyering, 2009/05/09