From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020326 Description of problem: As root, Running ls -al doesn't return all files in a directory. Only show ., .. and a README file that I added afterward. There are 12 other files that are not shown. They show up with tree, evolution or gmc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log as root (as a precaution) 2./bin/ls -al (again to make sure that the alias doesn't interfere) Actual Results: [apicard@master configs]$ /bin/ls -al total 460 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 12 11:47 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 12 11:49 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14242 Apr 12 11:47 README Results with tree: [apicard@master configs]$ tree . |-- README |-- kernel-2.4.9-athlon-smp (copy).config |-- kernel-2.4.9-athlon-smp.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-athlon.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i386-BOOT.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i386-smp.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i386.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i586-smp.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i586.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i686-debug.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i686-enterprise.config |-- kernel-2.4.9-i686-smp.config `-- kernel-2.4.9-i686.config Expected Results: To see all files Additional info: With evolution, looked at file properties and they are -rw-r--r-- or 644.
listing sent was cut/paste as user other than root, results were the same for root. Also problem appears only here but had appear elsewhere a few days ago.
This looks like you've been rooted and someone installed a fake fileutils. Please verify the integrity of fileutils on your installation using rpm -V fileutils.
You were right. I had been rooted.