bootchart problem

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:40 AM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> On recently rebooting after an update,  bootchart started to use
> all available memory and 100% CPU. After killing the process I used
> synaptic to remove bootchart and all its configuration files.
>
> However, rkhunter now starts to complain that it has found a new hidden
> directory /dev/.bootchart. This is quite large.  One file, proc/kcore,  is
> reported by ls as 140737486266368 bytes, though du can't access most files
> so I don't know what the total size is.
>
> Many files, which are owned by root, have only read permission, and
> whatever I try with sudo results in an 'Operation not permitted' or a
> 'Permission denied' message.
>
> How may I delete this directory? I can't see any reference to the directory
> in the docs on the bootchart website.

If you really can't delete it as root, rebooting should rebuild "/dev"
without it.