help with ls command

[shimi]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Camelia Botez
<camelia.botez at weizmann.ac.il>wrote:

>  I have 2 servers running Rhel5 and Centos5.****
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> Around 2 weeks ago on both of them , I have specific directories on which
> ls command gets stuck.****
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> I don’t get any output from ls , I cannot stop the command – I only can
> close the window.****
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> I rebooted the servers and when I saw that reboot didn’t help I ran
> manually  fsck.****
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> No improvement.****
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> Has anyone any idea what can be the cause and what to do?****
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Things I can think of...

Anything on dmesg when this happens?

Did you verify that those directories are indeed on the volume you fsck'd ?
(and not a network share, etc.)

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)

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?

Do the stuck process get into D state  (in 'ps axuf') like I assume it is?

I know I didn't answer the question but maybe an answer to one of these
questions might :)

That's it for now...

-- Shimi
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