Why can't I delete a file marked as a socket from my linux ext3 filesystem?

Why can't I delete a file marked as a socket from my linux ext3 filesystem? I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 with a ext3 filesystem. A while ago I was hacking on the flock 2.0 source and I have just tried to delete the source directory, but a single file could not be deleted when using the rm -rf command. So, now I'm in the following state:
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"To me it looks like filesystem corruption, because that .svn-base file should not be a socket: it should contain the base revision of the wizWaterMark.bmp file checked out from subversion.

Some hints should come from dmesg, but I would immediately remount the filesystem readonly (mount -o remount,ro /mountpoint) and do an fsck on it.

Good luck!"