ghost files

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I have a strange thing happening.  My rsync mirror of slackware.com has
"ghost files" in it, i.e. files that don't exist yet most file operations
still find them.  Here is an example using 'ls':

root@universe:/home/ftp/pub/slackware-current/slackware/xap# ls
/bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz.asc: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: gimp-1.3.23-i486-1.txt: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.tgz: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.tgz.asc: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.txt: No such file or directory

Notice 'ls' "sees" these files, but they don't actually exist.  I don't
know how to delete what doesn't exist, but I would like to get ls to quit
reporting these files (ls isn't the only command, chown does the same
thing).  What should I do?

James Rich