Odd file problem

[David A. Bandel]

OK folks, this is weird:

elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls
adduser.mo        diffutils.mo  lynx.mo       pppoeconf.mo  texinfo.mo
aptitude.mo       dpkg.mo       make.mo       psmisc.mo    
util-linux.mo
attr.mo           findutils.mo  man-db.mo     sed.mo        whois.mo
bison.mo          gettext.mo    mutt.mo       shadow.mo
console-tools.mo  gnupg.mo      nano.mo       sharutils.mo
coreutils.mo      grep.mo       net-tools.mo  tar.mo
debconf.mo        libc.mo       opcodes.mo    tasksel.mo
elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls -l
ls: gettext.mo: Unknown error 990
ls: nano.mo: Unknown error 990
ls: whois.mo: Unknown error 990
total 1396
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7103 Dec 24 05:49 adduser.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        35254 Jul 12  2002 aptitude.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5143 Dec 10 16:23 attr.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15215 Oct 18 12:44 bison.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        32634 Nov 11  2001 console-tools.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       239870 Oct  8 21:17 coreutils.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5317 Dec 26 21:34 debconf.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        24021 Jul 20  2002 diffutils.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       148840 Sep 15 13:36 dpkg.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10272 Nov  3 13:33 findutils.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       106460 Oct 27 20:53 gnupg.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        11973 Feb 16 01:33 grep.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        88888 Feb 25 08:45 libc.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       128123 Feb 27 13:58 lynx.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        35598 Sep  9  2002 make.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        21405 Sep 16 15:34 man-db.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        78219 Feb 16 05:49 mutt.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        46671 Nov 24  2001 net-tools.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1437 Oct 15 20:27 opcodes.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10281 Sep 28 14:45 pppoeconf.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3907 Sep 27 06:54 psmisc.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8936 Feb 14 17:41 sed.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        41648 Nov 24 22:31 shadow.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14935 Dec 29 08:41 sharutils.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        34836 Oct 29 16:56 tar.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3740 Feb 26 12:39 tasksel.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        74163 Dec 15 13:46 texinfo.mo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       140891 Jan 30 03:15 util-linux.mo
elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# touch adduser.mo 
elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# touch gettext.mo 
touch: creating `gettext.mo': Unknown error 990
elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# 

Note that in the short listing, gettext.mo and nano.mo exist.  Then note
the error in the long listing.  Then note what happens when I touch the
file.

I have no clue what to make of this.

David A. Bandel
-- 
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		Nemesis Racing Team motto
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