Unable to access local directory

Hi,

Two (stupid) questions;

1. is there an /usr/local directory (post the output of 'ls /usr'
2. is the filesystem mounted read-only (post the output of 'mount')

If the filesystem is mounted read-only you can remount it (mount -o rw,remount /).

//jonas

The ls -l command shows
"drwxrwxrwx   2 root users     0 Aug  7 10:56 local"
after chmod 777 local and chgrp users local

I performed a reinstall, selecting reformat existing linux partitions and still had the same problem.  I then ran dban to wipe the drive and currently in the process of reinstalling again, useing ext2 format instead of ext3.  

I'll let you know if the problem is still present in just a little bit.
Thanks

Please check if the system is mounted read-only (post the output of 'mount')

//jonas

Reinstalled CentOS 5 -- same issue.  See the following mount, df, and ls command posts.
[root@gifford usr]# cd local/
bash: cd: local/: No such file or directory

[root@gifford usr]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

[root@gifford usr]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       72G  2.9G   65G   5% /
/dev/sda1              99M   12M   83M  13% /boot
tmpfs                 248M     0  248M   0% /dev/shm

[root@gifford usr]# ls -l
total 236
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 65536 Aug  8 20:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 29  2007 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 29  2007 games
drwxr-xr-x  77 root root 12288 Aug  8 20:10 include
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Nov 10  2007 kerberos
drwxr-xr-x 115 root root 53248 Aug  8 20:11 lib
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 Aug  8 20:09 libexec
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 Aug  8 20:18 local
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 16384 Aug  8 20:10 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 222 root root 12288 Aug  8 20:11 share
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Aug  8 20:10 src
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    10 Aug  8 19:57 tmp -> ../var/tmp
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Aug  8 19:58 X11R6