I am trying to delete a folder, but failing to do so. I am sudo, and have all permissions.
cd /path/to/parent
ls
001 003 005 007 009 011 013 015 017 019 021 dent_detections_3d.ply dent_spread_debug.png paint_chip_spread_debug.png
002 004 006 008 010 012 014 016 018 020 _det__grouped.json dent_detections_debug.json paint_chip_detections_debug.json
I want to delete 003
which is the problematic folder. Other folders behave normally.
Observations:
cd 003
gives-bash: cd: 003: No such file or directory
sudo rm -rf 003
orsudo rm -rf 003/
gives empty output, thenls
gives the same as above (003
exists).
python
> import os
> path.os.exists("path/to/parent")
>> True
> path.os.exists("path/to/parent/003")
>> False
> os.mkdir("path/to/parent/003")
>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/path/to/parent/003'
What may be causing this? How to debug this? I want the folder removed, and I need this to not happen again.
EDIT to answer comments:
> ls -la
total 6144
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 9 18:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:28 001
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:28 002
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:28 003
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 004
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 005
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 006
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 007
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 008
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 009
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 010
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 011
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 012
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 013
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 014
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 015
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 016
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 017
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 018
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 019
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 020
drwxr-xr-x 2 noam root 0 Dec 28 13:26 021
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 684753 Dec 12 11:58 _det__grouped.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 7604 Dec 12 11:58 dent_detections_3d.ply
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 89902 Dec 12 11:58 dent_detections_debug.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 377863 Dec 12 11:58 dent_spread_debug.png
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 24 Dec 12 11:58 paint_chip_detections_debug.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 noam root 362525 Dec 12 11:58 paint_chip_spread_debug.png
EDIT2 with the information that a race-condition is the problem
Relevant code chunk that creates the folder:
if os.path.exists(cluster_folder_path):
shutil.rmtree(cluster_folder_path)
os.mkdir(cluster_folder_path)