<Fixed>Installing From Source

[Ray2047]

Got a bit bored today so was playing around with install from source. I got the package unpacked and decided to quit but now I can't delete or move the unpacked package from my desktop. When I try either as user or Root I get:



And yes Seamonkey is the package name. Actually I can run Seamonkey from the package just fine, even picks up and uses my profile in user-home, and if I could just move it off the Desktop I might just keep it. Guess best might be to do a actual install if someone wants to walk me through it.

Note Seamonkey in the repos is a year out of date and I did request an updated package just mostly playing around while waiting for an update.

[muungwana]

you cant delete a file even as root.

That suggests a file system corruption.

what does this command give you?

dmesg | grep -i error

I would recommend restart and do a file system check.

You can force a file system check by running the following command on the terminal as root and then restarting

touch /forcefsck

[Ray2047]

When I run dmesg | grep -i error
 I get:

         res 51/84:00:00:00:00/84:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
         res 51/84:00:00:00:00/84:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
         res 51/84:00:00:00:00/84:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
         res 51/84:00:00:00:00/84:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }

[muungwana]

that output is not very informative.

you can run "dmesg" command and look at the output and see if anything stick out.

do fsck and then check if you still can not delete the file.

[Ray2047]

Ran the forced check, some non contiguous blocks were found and corrected but I still can't delete it.

[Ray2047]

Solved it. I deleted the "license txt file" as root first. Then I was able to delete the whole remaining directory as root.