Chad Waters on 11 Nov 2008 11:22:08 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] directory permissions corrupted in 8.10


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Art Alexion <x> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 11:36:08 am Bringhurst, Jonathan O (Mission
> Systems) wrote:
>> Here's a few shots in the dark.
>>
>> Try cd-ing into the dir as a normal user AND as root. I'm thinking you
>> might have it executable by the owner and not everyone.
>>
>> Try 'chmod a+x /mnt/H' anyway. Then try to cd in again (sometimes
>> permissions on the dir won't show up until you try to cd in).
>>
>> Try 'stat /mnt/H', it might give you another clue (but probably not).
>> Question marks usually means stat() is returning nulls in the struct, so
>> this might be an issue of "it isn't there" rather than permissions.
>
> I am thinking it is a recent change in samba or hal.
>

I skipped through bug reports and didn't notice anything similar.

You should file one: http://launchpad.net
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