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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m talkibg about /usr/local/src that is on /dev/sda2 under / and indeed it is the partition I ran fsck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In other directories ls works fine.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes the
</span>shell does manage to read the directory contents , but in one subdirectory containing no more than 24 files ls –ltr gets stuck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No the ls command is not in D state (if I’m not mistaking its state is S).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> shimi@shimi.net [mailto:shimi@shimi.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>shimi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 01, 2012 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Camelia Botez<br>
<b>Cc:</b> linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: help with ls command<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Camelia Botez <<a href="mailto:camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il" target="_blank">camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I have 2 servers running Rhel5 and Centos5.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Around 2 weeks ago on both of them , I have specific directories on which ls command gets stuck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I don’t get any output from ls , I cannot stop the command – I only can close the window.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I rebooted the servers and when I saw that reboot didn’t help I ran manually fsck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">No improvement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Has anyone any idea what can be the cause and what to do?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Things I can think of...<br>
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Anything on dmesg when this happens?<br>
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Did you verify that those directories are indeed on the volume you fsck'd ? (and not a network share, etc.)<br>
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Are those 'stock' directories (part of the install) or something you've added? If stock, what's the path? (to know if it's a special one, augmenting the previous question)<o:p></o:p></p>
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Is the problem with actual listing, or 'ls' itself? Did you try, for example, cat /path/to/dir/ <tab> <tab> to see if the shell does manage to read the directory contents?<br>
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Do the stuck process get into D state (in 'ps axuf') like I assume it is?<br>
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I know I didn't answer the question but maybe an answer to one of these questions might :)<br>
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That's it for now...<br>
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-- Shimi<o:p></o:p></p>
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