From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 06:07:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA10604 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 06:07:05 -0700 Received: from lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.7.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA10597 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 06:06:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199509251306.GAA10597@freefall.freebsd.org> Received: by lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA25193; Mon, 25 Sep 95 20:49:33 +0800 From: Yen-Wei Liu Subject: Re: Why "ls -la" hangs ? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 20:49:33 EAT Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509211759.KAA09011@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 21, 95 10:59 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > Symlink to a /dev/xxx or a FIFO in your /? > > What about without the l? > > What about without the a? > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org I owe you guys a huge apology. Shame on me : I didn't notice my ypserve and ypbind was running without proper configuration. Though it was not an NFS problem, but apparently it was due to a mis-configured yp problem. After killing those daemons, everything goes right again. Thanks for your help and explanations. --- Yen-Wei Liu Internet e-mail address:ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ywliu@gate.sinica.edu.tw FAX: +886-2-783-6444