[mythtv-users] Permission denied to ls for root?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/14/2006 09:31 PM, Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> On 7/14/06, *Ryan Steffes* <rbsteffes at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rbsteffes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've never seen ls do this before, at least, not for root.  Any
>     idea what could cause it?
>
>     # ls
>     ls: 1036_20060417230000_20060417233000.nuv.png: Permission denied
>     ls: 1056_20060610130000.mpg: Permission denied
>     ls: 1006_20050920213000_20050920220000.nuv.png: Permission denied
>     ls: 1013_20060420201900_20060420203000.nuv: Permission denied
>     ls: 1003_20060419220000_20060419230000.nuv.png: Permission denied
>
>     Can't delete em, look at em, touch em, chmod em, or chown em, even
>     as root.  It's odd.
>
>
> Are these files on a remote NFS share?   If so, that's not unusual.  
> Root is usually mapped to "nobody" on remote NFS servers.

Or, it could happen because of a stale NFS file handle (fixable by 
unmounting/remounting).

Mike