Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:30:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why "ls -la" hangs ? Message-ID: <199509201630.JAA00996@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509200706.AAA21473@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yen-Wei Liu" at Sep 20, 95 02:51:04 pm
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> After further tracing, "ls -la" would go into an infinite loop, which > I believe was a result of file system corruption. Fsck gave me no > error. > > I decide to reformat and reinstall it. But I just wonder why "ls -la" > would go into an infinite loop, and if that's because the corruption of > the files system, what would bring up this. "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. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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