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 1PCv75-0002rT-48 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:11:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E601CE08F5; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:11:07 +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 A6620E08F5 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so3208273ewy.40 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:57 -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=XzoPfbljeItcO1i7/0Y69dcXVmIiyxdMfFhRzFu9t80=; b=eaBA8249nx+610Bjya0uSqKvS1itFGlGG3fQ3lBrnOHAW8D447l98mBaMkvbTuekNB T2oQol7PPLzej8z7LTjCm7DSUCkr/HvXwFVphBfAh35W7Br0afYGDO4rkGyZnGxXp7TK GvUhP6AdBIgWIhCM7b2gDZyTgkz719PmGNXLY= 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=XdzC/jnT5/cPRWeWklqAOux1QnoF9QHkgYCDmwAfhFgY/2ef9esLVeh5gnzbZCiC27 ihZ9kqtkJUbqYHC4jiwMy+/kMoabCT/9fkU9z7Ok/FIWrVZTFDdcQ8vt+2wcNtZfIQZK py7+cjrZd3aRnGtQT+wVIBjCuM1R6UGAIgMIg= Received: by 10.213.113.139 with SMTP id a11mr1992523ebq.60.1288620657055; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x54sm4242998eeh.17.2010.11.01.07.10.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:10:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:11:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: alex References: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> <201011011513.12777.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CCEC0E6.6000006@sourcegarden.de> In-Reply-To: <4CCEC0E6.6000006@sourcegarden.de> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011011611.28517.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5ee1a020-43cc-4547-ab45-84c7da78ea1e X-Archives-Hash: e0ecd317eea3a407fcf26b8feec6e472 Apparently, though unproven, at 15:30 on Monday 01 November 2010, alex did opine thusly: > > I suspect directory corruption in /home - is it a separate partition? > > > > I don't recall if you mentioned this or not, do you get the same result > > if you run "ls $HOME" as root? root's home dir is not on /home so that > > will vbe a valuable clue. If that command works, do an fsck on /home > > Could also some problem with the inodes, could't? Yes. Doesn't matter if it's inodes or blocks, it's still corruption. inodes are just blocks that the fs drivers understands to treat specially. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com