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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 ;)...                               
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