Ed Greshko wrote:
On 12/11/17 20:11, Neal Becker wrote:
> Since last boot, I've got this strange symptom. Filesystem is btrfs. If
> I list my home dir with dired under emacs I see:
>
> -rwxrwxr-x. 1 nbecker nbecker 207 Dec 3 2015 BACKUP.sh
> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
> -?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
>
> Attempt to list with ls gives:
> /usr/bin/ls: cannot access '/home/nbecker/./.bash_history': No such
> file
> or directory
>
>
> I think this means there is a directory entry, but the file doesn't
> exist?
> Any suggestion to most reliably repair the damage? I don't care about
> losing the content of this file.
I assume you're executing the commands as yourself. If you "su -" and
become root do you see any difference?
No, same result as root
sudo ls -la .
[sudo] password for nbecker:
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '.bash_history': No such file or directory
total 11548
...
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
-?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
...