'ls' hangs FC6
Albert Graham
agraham at g-b.net
Thu Apr 10 15:09:44 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:15 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
>>> Mark Haney wrote:
>>>> And yes /bin/ls --color=tty hangs. In fact, I changed it to
>>>> color=auto and THAT hangs as well. I changed the ls alias to be
>>>> just 'ls' and that works fine for all directories that were
>>>> hanging before. But now, ls -l hangs too. Man, this is weird.
>>> Both colorizing the names based on the file type and getting the
>>> file metadata for a long listing require reading each file's inode,
>>> whereas 'ls' showing only the name requires only reading the
>>> directory data.
>>
>> If that's the case then "ls -l" should also hang. Does it?
>>
>> poc
>>
>
> ls -l /does/ hang in those cases, /with/ and /without/ the color
> option. However, the hang is different. With ls --color=tty the hang
> locks the entire ssh session. Whereas I can CTRL+C out of the ls -l
> hang.
>
> So you think this is inode/disk related?
>
>
I remember something like this happening some years ago to me, and I
think it was my terminal settings ?
Can you run screen, then issue the same command and see if that fixes
the problem ?
Another idea, if you're using NFS and your wsize/rsize are not correct
(check with tracepath) could cause hangs like this.
Albert.
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