help with ls command

[Amos Shapira]

Try passing ls a flag to not convert uid's to usernames. I'm beginning to
suspect an issue with user databases (e.g. look at sssd, nsswitch.conf and
friends)
On May 1, 2012 9:30 PM, "Camelia Botez" <camelia.botez at weizmann.ac.il>
wrote:

>  I’m talkibg about /usr/local/src that is on /dev/sda2 under / and indeed
> it is the partition I ran fsck.****
>
> In other directories ls works fine. ****
>
> Yes the shell does manage to read the directory contents , but in one
> subdirectory containing no more than 24 files ls –ltr gets stuck.****
>
> No the ls command is not in D state (if I’m not mistaking its state is S).
> ****
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> ****
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> *From:* shimi at shimi.net [mailto:shimi at shimi.net] *On Behalf Of *shimi
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 01, 2012 2:13 PM
> *To:* Camelia Botez
> *Cc:* linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> *Subject:* Re: help with ls command****
>
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> 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.****
>
> 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?****
>
>  ****
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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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