ls -l gives "?---------" and root has no permission

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

" /usr/share/locale/fr" holds the locale files for the French lang.  You
don't really need those, do you?


>-----Original Message-----
>From: On Behalf Of hanasaki
>Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:18 PM

>
>Below is the output from root doing an ls -l of a specific 
>file and of the directory... Anyone ever seen this before?  a 
>rebuild tree from a booted knoppix disk fixed things for 
>awhile and now this is showing up again.  thanks
>
>uname = 2.6.15.4
>partition is reiser3.6
>
>================
>ls: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-utils-2.0.mo: 
>Permission denied
>
>================
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  31475 2006-01-12 17:38 totem.mo
>?--------- ? ?    ?         ?                ?
>/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-2.0.mo
>?--------- ? ?    ?         ?                ?
>/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-utils-2.0.mo
>?--------- ? ?    ?         ?                ?
>/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libgksuui1.0.mo
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30600 2006-01-16 16:32 vorbis-tools.mo