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I am experiencing two very strange problems on a VMware ESXi 6.0 shell which is based on Linux. I am a bit stumped on what to do here. Has anyone seen this before?

The problems are:

The 'ls' command is expecting a file that should be there but is missing in its output. This is the error shown with "No such file or directory".
Any 'cp' or 'less' commands would fail on the syscall 'open' with EINVAL despite the file being shown at the output of the 'ls' command. This is the large file with 53687091200 bytes.

Problem 1
Notice the following line in the output below.

Code:

rls: ./This is the filename.vmx: No such file or directory

Code:

[root@esxi6prim]ls -lt

rls: ./This is the filename.vmx: No such file or directory

total 52833288

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root          6781 Apr  4 04:34 This is the filename.sh

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        270087 Mar 28 04:42 vmware.log

-rw-------    1 root    root          8684 Mar 28 04:42 This is the filename.nvram

-rw-------    1 root    root    53687091200 Feb 17 12:52 This is the filename-flat.vmdk

-rw-------    1 root    root          524 Nov 24 09:55 This is the filename.vmdk

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root    409599604 Nov 24 07:26 vmware-3.log

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        177929 Oct 14  2015 vmware-2.log

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root        179092 Oct  9  2015 vmware-1.log

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root            0 Oct  4  2015 This is the filename.vmsd

Problem 2
Notice the following line in the output below.

Code:

open("This is the filename-flat.vmdk", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Code:

[root@esxi6prim]strace less 'This is the filename-flat.vmdk'

execve("/bin/less", ["less", "This is the filename-fl"...], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0

[ Process PID=348326 runs in 32 bit mode. ]

brk(0)                                  = 0x1f000000

uname({sys="VMkernel", node="esxi6prim", ...}) = 0

access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/lib/tls/libncursesw.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

stat64("/lib/tls", 0xff900764)          = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/lib/libncursesw.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200\273\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=349963, ...}) = 0

mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xffffffffff901000

mmap2(NULL, 327364, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x52b0000

mmap2(0x52fd000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x4c) = 0x52fd000

close(3)                                = 0

open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3

read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\214\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=1638750, ...}) = 0

mmap2(NULL, 1452696, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5300000

mmap2(0x545d000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x15c) = 0x545d000

mmap2(0x5460000, 10904, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x5460000

close(3)                                = 0

mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xffffffffff902000

set_thread_area(0xff900bd0)            = 0

mprotect(0x545d000, 8192, PROT_READ)    = 0

mprotect(0x8089000, 4096, PROT_READ)    = 0

ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

brk(0)                                  = 0x1f000000

brk(0x1f021000)                        = 0x1f021000

stat64("/usr/share/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=512, ...}) = 0

access("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = 0

open("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=3270, ...}) = 0

mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xffffffffff903000

read(3, "\32\0010\0&\0\17\0\235\1l\5xterm|xterm terminal"..., 131072) = 3270

read(3, "", 131072)                    = 0

close(3)                                = 0

munmap(0xff903000, 131072)              = 0

ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=87, ws_col=144, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0

ioctl(2, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=87, ws_col=144, ws_xpixel=0, ws_ypixel=0}) = 0

open("/bin/.sysless", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/etc/sysless", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("//.less", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3

fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=6835808, ...}) = 0

mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x76475000

mmap2(NULL, 1175552, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0x1b5) = 0x76675000

close(3)                                = 0

open("//.lesshst", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3

ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

fsync(3)                                = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {B38400 opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0

rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x805dadc, [INT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x532cd78}, {SIG_DFL, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0

rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x805db19, [TSTP], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x532cd78}, {SIG_DFL, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0

rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {0x805db51, [WINCH], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x532cd78}, {SIG_DFL, [WINCH], 0}, 8) = 0

rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN, [QUIT], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x532cd78}, {SIG_DFL, ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 0}, 8) = 0

stat64("This is the filename-flat.vmdk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=53687091200, ...}) = 0

stat64("This is the filename-flat.vmdk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=53687091200, ...}) = 0

open("This is the filename-flat.vmdk", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

write(2, "This\\ is\\ the\\ file"..., 62This\ is\ the\ filename-flat.vmdk: Invalid argument

) = 62

fsync(3)                                = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW, {B38400 -opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0

exit_group(1)                          = ?