'ls' hangs FC6

[Mark Haney]

Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>  Here's what I'm not quite getting with all this.  I can ls in certain
>> directories with hardlinks (I'm using rsnapshot to backup our servers to the
>> SAN) and the parent of one directory I can ls just fine(say backup), I cd
>> into the only child in the directory( cd bak/, so now pwd shows
>> 'backup/bak/') and do an ls there and it hangs so badly I can't kill the
>> process and the ssh session locks up).
> 
> We're certainly getting beyond my level, but does doing an "strace
> /bin/ls" reveal anything?
> 
> reid
> 

Now here's something strange.  My alias is set as:

alias ls='ls --color=tty', which based on looking at my other Fedora 
boxes is standard, methinks.  However, if I do a /bin/ls of any 
directory that hangs with 'ls' only, it works perfectly.  If I do not 
use the full path (i.e. ls <dir> instead of /bin/ls <dir>) it hangs.

But, it doesn't hang every time I use 'ls' instead of '/bin/ls', only on 
certain directories.  I'm trying to get an strace now, but wanted to try 
every other option I could think of first.


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