help with ls command

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Sounds like you are trying to do an ls on a directory that is mounted NFS 
from an NFS server that is not responding or not available.

  - yba


On Tue, 1 May 2012, Baruch Siach wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:11:48 +0300
> From: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> To: Camelia Botez <camelia.botez at weizmann.ac.il>
> Cc: "linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il" <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: help with ls command
> 
> Hi Camelia,
>
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:59:42AM +0000, Camelia Botez wrote:
>> I have 2 servers running Rhel5 and Centos5.
>> Around 2 weeks ago on both of them , I have specific directories on which ls
>> command gets stuck.
>> I don't get any output from ls , I cannot stop the command - I only can
>> close the window.
>> I rebooted the servers and when I saw that reboot didn't help I ran manually
>> fsck.
>> No improvement.
>> Has anyone any idea what can be the cause and what to do?
>
> Please provide the output of the following command:
>
>    strace ls
>
> If you don't have 'strace' on your servers, just install the strace package
> with 'yum install strace'.
>
> baruch
>
>

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