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 1PD0Ok-00081d-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:50:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54F73E05A1; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B91CE05A1 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (p57910C8B.dip.t-dialin.net [87.145.12.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3629D4A8296 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:49:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CCF199F.6050108@wonkology.org> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:48:47 +0100 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME References: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 11e14f6b-baf2-4fc9-abaa-aac85939bac5 X-Archives-Hash: cb159266688141efedac9a25477ad1c0 Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: > I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will > not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] > It only seem to happen on $HOME.... how very odd. > Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? No. But maybe 'strace ls' will show something? Is /home on a separate partition? I'd do a fsck on it. touch /forcefsck or use a live cd for this. Good luck, Wonko