From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PCrxj-00067C-Pl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:50:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52948E06EE; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F719E06EE for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so3084709ewy.40 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:49:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=JAL0J4WbPLNejyap3cnhGHLIeSVhm7ATH1bh64SDPDw=; b=SPcPwXAu7Fzk3QzqWXg+L9P87jQt63XTOf722o47Y1KeydNNRmDK50yKen+oUg+lTQ YdTcElb0hQCU9QNUjfddG8DqQevmeAte0wrcwiGqUYJG1IIwtMrWtEmDfr6UtCvEkwry MjK4p9tNL5bDMQE6HrUHiMDsu21MkMhv3kJEI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=FSvuc2hBJJE1JgiXhxjAm2fhtULRJ+c2WTYQxLpqKcSzs/3tTl7hZCPrkfVZOg0Zhr e0lyQwEDelC2X3D0sLtpP3/BM/fJZQfskW5GhkbUPfh8OPAaiK+x9CwkO/2a+rlKNOJ9 Zs9DGSPdAJgSIwgNVyEPiKSHCp0Jxg5vd/Dsw= Received: by 10.14.37.77 with SMTP id x53mr10847494eea.25.1288608562382; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm4082361eei.19.2010.11.01.03.49.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:49:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Harry Putnam References: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011011249.53945.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d590304c-5176-4298-be1a-8ea3b8e66cf0 X-Archives-Hash: 33699e1b672c1a51933b34b4eb8677c7 Apparently, though unproven, at 12:28 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry Putnam did opine thusly: > Something I have not run into before. > > Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will > not run on $HOME. > > I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will > not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. > > Top shows 94% idle so its not from heavy system usage. > > The ls command seems to work anywhere else, and I see nothing peculiar > when viewing $HOME with emacs. > > Running `ls' from a root shell against my user $HOME, is the same story, > indefinite hang, nothing listed. > > I've let it run from both user and root shell for upwards of 1/2 hr. > Still just sets there. > > I've killed the terminal and restarted both user and root shells. But > still the same result... a `ls' against my user $HOME will just hang. > > In both root shell and user shell, once `ls' is run against my user > $HOME, the command hangs but also cannot by interrupted. Ctrl-c will > not stop it. > > It only seem to happen on $HOME.... how very odd. > Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expanded the HOME variable. So it's unlikely to be the command and more something dodgy with your shell. What shell are you using? What is the output of "echo $HOME"? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com