Anoying TMP files

[perrera]

Hello, cant find any solution or guidance to this:
I have many files in my /tmp dir, no user, no group:

-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_10c4d183de69ed382420ad1abf300739
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_113bb83c2f8b1aa500872566450d6043
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_14c437c07dcd44b26c69a706b31a1bd4
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_16e8eafb52f7376a549d9e635b4d8e7f
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_240d240e5b2c085f18f4ea02bbcc5d81
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_250c8d102d52ebdecbf96643415ad6a9
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_28f101dc36cf3e08bee7a1acb87fedac
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_2a48774a36296cb66b3ad6aa994ba05e
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_38fc28646b91ecb218792b187453679d
-????????? ? ?         ?           ?            ? sess_437f2fc5c3c3f38946e72c44b3d7af94

Cant delete those files, and in the /var/log/messages frecuently have:

server011 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device loop0): ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1663

I think all is all about the tmp folder, but have no idea how to fix this.
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
(sorry for my english)

 

[nobaloney]

Could be a hardware problem; could be that there are directory entries but no files. Can you chown them to root:root? Can you chmod them to 444? If you can, then you probably delete them afterwards.

Do they show up in a:

du sess*

request? If so, do they take up any space at all?

What you might need to do next will depend on whether your /tmp directory is in it's own separate partition, a logical partition, or is just a directory.

Jeff