Can't Delete Items

notorious · #1 2nd June 2005, 05:01 AM

I was deleting all but my own personal stuff on my slave partitions - Including the Windows Folder. I emptied out the trash can. Fedora asked me if I was sure, which was odd because I have it set not to ask me anymore but said ok anyway. Now afterwards I can no longer delete items. What did I do wrong?

ogetbilo · #2 2nd June 2005, 05:08 AM

Is this gnome or KDE or something else?
Did you try to log out and log in as a different user?
What happens now if you carry something over the trash can?

notorious · #3 2nd June 2005, 05:24 AM

I just got back from switching users and trying it out. I was able to delete as normal as myself. I was deleting as root when this happened. When I logged back into root, where I'm at now, I still can't delete. Drag 'n drop is ignored. I can drag but can't drop. I'm using gnome.

Did I delete something perhaps that was needed by fedora that I didn't know thinking it was a windows file/folder?

w5set · #4 2nd June 2005, 05:41 AM

didn't clean out the /tmp directory did you?

notorious · #5 2nd June 2005, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by w5set

didn't clean out the /tmp directory did you?

I didn't touch the linux drive at all. It's my master. The /tmp folder is still in place. All my deletion was from the slave drive (dual partition). I wan't to use it for storage now and was getting rid of the windows stuff and just keeping my own files.

w5set · #6 2nd June 2005, 06:14 AM

no guarentees about it--but type in
fixfiles relabel; reboot
answer yes--and let it delete the tmp files and then reboot--but if you did delete something rather essential somehwere--you might be trying to get it boot back up even ??--the fixfiles and deleteing the tmp files won't do that--but it could straighten out the temporary problems with the desktop usage....certainly won't hurt nothing...I got a case of the notorious icon flicker a few weeks ago and the fixfiles worked.--geeee--didn't even go see a doctor for the problem either--and you know how bad the "flicker" can get--hi--hi

Omega Blue · #7 2nd June 2005, 09:39 AM

Could you delete files from a terminal?

notorious · #8 3rd June 2005, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by w5set

fixfiles relabel; reboot
answer yes--and let it delete the tmp files and then reboot

This did it thank you.

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I tried to delete first using terminal but apparently wasn't typing the right command to do it.

Today further testing also revealed that I was able to delete from one partition but not the other. After doing the above command I can delete now.

w5set · #9 3rd June 2005, 04:58 AM

Sometimes when the desktop stuff is messed up and not working right, or the terminal is sideways this command will do away with the temp "setup" files that the system uses for 'housekeeping" and general "stuff" and SOMETIMES (depending on problem) will straighten it out.