Corrupt directory!

[Ken Moffat]

Arghh!

I think I already asked this a while ago, but I'll try it again, since
my isp had some problems delivering to sxs.

I have a corrupt directory (had to run fsck.ext3 a few times on this
file system.)

drw--ws--- 2   2104   17360    8192 2007-12-02 19:54 ssindex

Note the permissions and owner!

Anyone have an idea how to delete this thing?
# rmdir ssindex
rmdir: ssindex: Operation not permitted
# mv ssindex /home/ken
mv: cannot remove directory `ssindex': Operation not permitted



It appears to be part of gnumeric, which won't reinstall; see below.


# apt-get install gnumeric
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  gnumeric-doc gnumeric-plugins-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnumeric
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2100kB of archives.
After unpacking 5668kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 156079 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnumeric (from .../gnumeric_1.6.3-5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnumeric_1.6.3-5_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 unable to move aside `./usr/bin/ssindex' to install new version:
Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gnumeric_1.6.3-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)