'ls' hangs FC6

[Ed Greshko]

Mark Haney wrote:

> Strangely the system hangs before displaying ANY files.  If it did a 
> few, it might be something I could nail down myself.
> 
> Now, I'm getting more and more sure that it's a user/group resolution 
> problem since the ls -ln option works in every case where both ls and ls 
> -l hang.

There is a good chance "strace" output will go a long way in determining the 
cause.  I had a case where a kernel update was hanging.  That was the only 
thing hanging.  An strace quickly allowed me to determine that, of all 
things, it was a cdrom drive gone bad.