'ls' hangs FC6

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
>  I've seen it wait long periods of time doing "ls /" when the root
>  directory contains links to networked directories which are either on
>  machines which are no longer running or having problems.

Similarly, I had a symbolic link in my home directory to a nonexistent
file under autofs's /misc directory.  Anything that tried to access my
home directory froze.  Very frustrating, though running an ls under
strace helped pinpoint the problem.  (I don't know why referring to a
nonexistent file under /misc would suddenly and out of the blue cause
it to hang, that's another issue....)

reid