Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:01:57 CST6CDT From: "John Booth" <JOHN@gab.unt.edu> To: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why "ls -la" hangs ? Message-ID: <C093712D89@gab.unt.edu>
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> > "ls -la" does a stat. Plain "ls" does not. > > > > Your problem is that your NFS server is not responding for one of the > > mounted subdirectories of the directory being "ls"'ed. > > > > Strange enough, this happens on my root partition a stand-alone hard disk, > not on an NFS-mounted directory. Now it happens on /, and /usr/src. Maybe > more, but I don't know. That's why it makes me think of the possibility > of file system corruption. Does ls -l hang? We were using NIS for some things, then stopped connecting to the NIS server for various reasons (our choosing) and ls -l would hang (I suspect when getting group information it was trying to query the NIS server). After removing the +:0:0.... lines from group & passwd it worked fine ;)... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- College of Arts & Sciences Computing Services John A. Booth, john@gab.unt.edu
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