'ls' hangs FC6

[Albert Graham]

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.