Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-01 02:37, Loren M. Lang wrote: On January 31, 2024 1:28:37 PM PST, hw wrote: On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the abi

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-31 12:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/01/2024 23:42, Gary Dale wrote: "ls -l /" just hangs It may dereference symlinks, call stat, etc. to colorize output. May it happen that you have automount points or something related to network mounts? Does "echo /*" hangs? Even bash prompt m

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Loren M. Lang
On January 31, 2024 1:28:37 PM PST, hw wrote: >On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >> On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: >> > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >> > > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability >> > > to see the root di

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread hw
On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability > > > to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). > > >

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/01/2024 23:42, Gary Dale wrote: "ls -l /" just hangs It may dereference symlinks, call stat, etc. to colorize output. May it happen that you have automount points or something related to network mounts? Does "echo /*" hangs? Even bash prompt may do some funny stuff. I would try it fr

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-01-29 at 11:42, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the > ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root > (su -). > > This has been happening intermittently for several months. I > initially thought it might be related to fa

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 12:55, Hans wrote: Hi Gary, before loosing any data, I suggest, to boot from a liuvefile linux. Please use a modern livefile like Knoppix or Kali-Linux. If it is not a BIOS problem, you should see the device again and are able to mount it. If /root is on a seperated partition, you

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 11:42, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to failing NVME

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially t

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-30 Thread hw
On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability > to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). > > This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially > thought it might be rel

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-29 Thread Hans
Hi Gary, before loosing any data, I suggest, to boot from a liuvefile linux. Please use a modern livefile like Knoppix or Kali-Linux. If it is not a BIOS problem, you should see the device again and are able to mount it. If /root is on a seperated partition, you can do some filesystem checks,

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-29 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 11:42:14AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to > see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). > > This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially > thought it might b

Can't list root directory

2024-01-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to failing NVME drive that was part of a RAID1 array th