-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another thing to check, is that the folder is marked +x in chmod. It may be that on reboot some automated cleaning script re-added that flag.
Folders can only be listed if they are +x btw On 06/11/2010, at 01:37, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-05, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> writes: >> >>> Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: >>> >>>> I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will >>>> not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. >>> [...] >>>> It only seem to happen on $HOME.... how very odd. >>>> Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? >>> >>> No. But maybe 'strace ls' will show something? >>> >>> Is /home on a separate partition? I'd do a fsck on it. touch /forcefsck >>> or use a live cd for this. Good luck, >> >> Just to close this thread... a reboot swept away all `ls' problems so >> still not sure what caused it, but am happily having normal experience >> with `ls' once again. >> >> The reboot was strictly unplanned, as the machine locked up >> overnight... no console access or by ssh, resulting in a hard manual >> reboot. >> >> When the machine came up, the `ls' problem had disappeared as well as >> sendmail problems discussed in a different thread. > > It sounds to me like you've got hardware problems. I'd at least run > memtest86 overnight if I were you. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I feel partially > at hydrogenated! > gmail.com > > William Brown pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJM1JirAAoJEHF16AnLoz6J9JgP/1JkcLdsdqsDAgt3IJE/BDhz S3/8e7IghJ75t/fPMoVqZKrgDt264hx6Paj5Qr4HLeEVNlFVV6Xm4+AjsHauHbZa P8qoFkE7G/yAsCXxwFQG4LGUOSHL6uRj3MZX1lJTQiN9h4qNqnl1rkwl045YLEdY ZXcIwqebwbtfGPDWFqbWeam4Dd14G/F2l/IxfiOZwD6G9Qcm9B1d8gZt3HnsvbAx GnQTSEG0KAa/e3XPV2V8Z+V9MNeJ+rForBtvAy5QRmk3cRMxdEF6AGkTmEyYwnUB SVoocBmtdxSMw3IZETpkW8r0Hq78OJMjzszrHrs6cVFVlNZHMh1aCkpuBh7hNz4K fQORkPoeHrgxzkwEq30RLlADY+PMn10hGBEfhZuI3VSBtUqv6yY4eNO7kAF3az2R MDE9W+ek8D4RDAjXZq/zdogg6WYN2Qi3fpRqpnE1iCsh4eWkQElUQ1BtoPh876wK 6o7MvGKB389DvG6Snsrjs+A/XaNayIL0zR4dtdwdNXFN6tdmNyVhaGdhE3J/OuKK 9bfXiDybdwr/JoAhw0UZCpv5ZiS/+8n7KuENUpLUzVSoAUl5S1FAF75AsKgf8mzZ Zz3ofz3d8BG2+pBcxSJtgLOrsPC2xwd2yyWzfP68HC39sb5WDgvH4Zocnzr9d5rL bF7chWDhEaVWePnchRf6 =3ufH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
