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 1PCtsU-00012l-IB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:52:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C1EEE07B3; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B4DE07B3 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BD31B4167 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:52:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.35 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.35 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.751, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7p9OVzI6rVYD for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:52:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAFB1B4155 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCtrm-0002p6-HF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:52:02 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:52:02 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:52:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:51:50 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d3qpb40p.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> <201011011249.53945.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87hbg1b9d5.fsf@newsguy.com> <201011011307.34534.alan.mckinnon@gmail.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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/yVWONm5PbNW/NLlWySDkr7kQ5M= X-Archives-Salt: 7b877254-dfef-4d7a-aa50-344483314064 X-Archives-Hash: 015c230dd1e6bee77b23d13f57d128bd Alan McKinnon writes: [...] >> > >> > What shell are you using? >> > What is the output of "echo $HOME"? >> >> My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: >> Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262 > > That's the terminal. > > What shell do you use/ > Sorry... still asleep... bash-4.1_p9 Willie Wong writes: [...] > Before we go further, when you said `ls' will not complete against > $HOME, which of the following scenario did you mean? > > a) you typed `ls $HOME' as a user (the one I think Alan thinks you > mean) > b) you type `ls' while in your home directory (/home/reader) > c) you typed `ls /home/reader' ? All three of those produce the same effect. Also if run from root shell against my users home `# ls /home/reader' The command just hangs there as described. However, as indicated earlier... my user or root can run `ls' against any other directory like normal. ls /etc Shows the content of /etc ls /home/reader Hangs eternally. Also, as mentioned, I can view /home/reader with emacs in dired (directory) mode, Which oddly enough uses ls and ls switches for that display far as I know. However, vim will not display /home/reader... and hangs eternally... requiring the shell to be killed. Viewing $HOME with emacs shows nothing untoward that I see. I thought maybe I'd somehow acquired thousands of files and `ls' was just taking forever to display the list... but no... nothing unusual in $HOME.