[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2010-11-05, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> writes:
>
>> 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,
>
> Just to close this thread... a reboot swept away all `ls' problems so
> still not sure what caused it, but am happily having normal experience
> with `ls' once again.
>
> The reboot was strictly unplanned, as the machine locked up
> overnight... no console access or by ssh, resulting in a hard manual
> reboot.
>
> When the machine came up, the `ls' problem had disappeared as well as
> sendmail problems discussed in a different thread.

It sounds to me like you've got hardware problems.  I'd at least run
memtest86 overnight if I were you.

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