<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Camelia Botez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il" target="_blank">camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have 2 servers running Rhel5 and Centos5.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Around 2 weeks ago on both of them , I have specific directories on which ls command gets stuck.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t get any output from ls , I cannot stop the command – I only can close the window.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I rebooted the servers and when I saw that reboot didn’t help I ran manually fsck.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No improvement.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone any idea what can be the cause and what to do?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Things I can think of...<br><br>Anything on dmesg when this happens?<br><br>Did you verify that those directories are indeed on the volume you fsck'd ? (and not a network share, etc.)<br>
<br>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)<br></div></div><br>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>
<br>Do the stuck process get into D state (in 'ps axuf') like I assume it is?<br><br>I know I didn't answer the question but maybe an answer to one of these questions might :)<br><br>That's it for now...<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br></div>