From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 07:02:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA06617 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:02:33 -0700 Received: from mercury.unt.edu (mercury.unt.edu [129.120.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA06612 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:02:28 -0700 Received: from gab.unt.edu by mercury.unt.edu with SMTP id AA05632 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:02:07 -0500 Received: from GAB/SpoolDir by gab.unt.edu (Mercury 1.21); 21 Sep 95 09:02:07 CST6CDT Received: from SpoolDir by GAB (Mercury 1.21); 21 Sep 95 09:02:03 CST6CDT From: "John Booth" Organization: University of North Texas To: Yen-Wei Liu Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:01:57 CST6CDT Subject: Re: Why "ls -la" hangs ? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > "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