[talk] Permission is denied when I try to run certain programs

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Sat Jun 24 07:46:29 EDT 2017


On Jun 24, 10:31am, _ at thomaslevine.com (Thomas Levine) wrote:
-- Subject: [talk] Permission is denied when I try to run certain programs

| My OpenBSD 6.1 system is in a state where I cannot run certain programs
| because of a lack of permission. What could the issue be? Perhaps
| related, this started happening around the same time when I started
| getting kernel panic upon trying to create a softraid device for my
| encrypted partition, which has always worked before. Both of these
| issues started right after somebody unplugged my computer's while it was
| running, but people have done that many times without these issues. It
| is possible that I broke something while trying to fix something else.
| 
| This happens with python3.6, for example. Most programs seem fine
| though.

Looks like your disk got corrupted... If you have user data on it,
try to save it... Forcing an fsck on it will make it better but you
might lose stuff in the process.

Sorry,

christos



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