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 1PCrdx-0004Ed-QS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:29:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31097E0630; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9940E0630 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BF31B4129 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:28:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.353 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.353 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.754, 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 btwB-8NLPGjL for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A69641C6 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCrcb-00075d-K5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:28:13 +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 11:28:13 +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 11:28:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:28:01 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <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=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: sha1:1/S0VG21sagH8zj1tKedEcWwRQ8= X-Archives-Salt: 6569359a-d470-45c3-87c0-5ac65fc4eccc X-Archives-Hash: 768da3362219b113f3b958b5d47e4bcd 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?