DonkeyPunchRodeo Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I recently used bleachbit to clean my Ubuntu 14.04 system. It came up with 5 errors. This has never happened before. There are some files I could not delete do to lack of permission. If I'm root I can do whatever I want right? Maybe not. I tried to chown them and chmod but this only worked with one of the files I was trying to delete. One of the files is in /root/tmp/ and seems to change it's name every time I run the cleaner. I'm not really sure what that's about. Can anyone point me in the way of figuring out how to change the file permissions or users on the files so I can delete them? Here's an example of one of the error messages. E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13: Permission denied)E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)Clipboard 0Exception while running operation 'system': '[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/1502/fd/0''[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/3243/oom_score_adj'[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/tmpt4sg66ANKTWYtvt2wymcbW USu0Iy eqOReD6w7fpaiQ11ejLN3b3xx0HJx rqG4i5t0HQ3onM7yseJYjpM.DgwPtPpbjE8cHpO.N2oVsy3IS1q ua5k YkJSNn SYvN19kB.n1th-3XutMhFkNC R8Q8t.eqWSpqc.Bdc3gtCJZl0MHTLZ2ifGhV34GBlmbEhZ50lt _wWaw-XFZowp JCGk09uHiUssFoPBPj4U1nGSAe1qFJYfyTnbLk'Disk space recovered: 0Files deleted: 0Special operations: 1Errors: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 When this program completed, did the in root/tmp* files still exist and if so, could you remove them then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyPunchRodeo Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) After I ran the cleaner the name changed to another alphanumeric value starting with 'tmp'. I'm not really sure what it is and why I can not delete said files. I'm not sure I'm doing everything right with owners, users, and persmissions. Edited June 23, 2014 by DonkeyPunchRodeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Could it not be that this file is a temp file made by that program itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyPunchRodeo Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 Possibly. I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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