Problem:

While attempting to remove a file on Linux, the message ‘rm: cannot lstat file: Input/output error’ appears:

[applmgr@oel5vis3 applmgr]$ cd /u01/VIS3/oracle/vis3db/9.2.0/oem_webstage/oracle/sysman/vbo/vbos
[applmgr@oel5vis3 vbos]$ ls -ltr
total 16
?--------- ? ?       ?      ?            ? VbosLobStorage.class
?--------- ? ?       ?      ?            ? VbosLobSQLList.class
?--------- ? ?       ?      ?            ? VbosLobOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosDimensionOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosArrayTypeOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosClusterOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosDBLinkOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosIndexOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosJavaObjectHelper.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosJavaObjectOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosJavaSourceOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosJavaClassOperations.class
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr dba    0 Apr 26  2002 VbosLob.class
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[applmgr@oel5vis3 vbos]$ rm VbosLobOperations.class 
rm: cannot remove `VbosLobOperations.class': Input/output error
[applmgr@oel5vis3 vbos]$ rm -f VbosLobOperations.class 
rm: cannot remove `VbosLobOperations.class': Input/output error
[applmgr@oel5vis3 vbos]$ touch VbosLobOperations.class
touch: cannot touch `VbosLobOperations.class': Input/output error

Solution:

Unmount partition with bad file and run fsck on partition (may need to exit Terminal window and open new Terminal window).