Apparently, though unproven, at 12:56 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry Putnam did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:28 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry > > Putnam > > > > did opine thusly: > >> Something I have not run into before. > >> > >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will > >> not run on $HOME. > >> > >> I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will > >> not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. > >> > >> Top shows 94% idle so its not from heavy system usage. > >> > >> The ls command seems to work anywhere else, and I see nothing peculiar > >> when viewing $HOME with emacs. > >> > >> Running `ls' from a root shell against my user $HOME, is the same story, > >> indefinite hang, nothing listed. > >> > >> I've let it run from both user and root shell for upwards of 1/2 hr. > >> Still just sets there. > >> > >> I've killed the terminal and restarted both user and root shells. But > >> still the same result... a `ls' against my user $HOME will just hang. > >> > >> In both root shell and user shell, once `ls' is run against my user > >> $HOME, the command hangs but also cannot by interrupted. Ctrl-c will > >> not stop it. > >> > >> It only seem to happen on $HOME.... how very odd. > >> Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? > > > > By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expanded > > the HOME variable. So it's unlikely to be the command and more something > > dodgy with your shell. > > > > What shell are you using? > > What is the output of "echo $HOME"? > > My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: > Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262 That's the terminal. What shell do you use/ > > echo $HOME > /home/reader > > That recent update may be the problem. I'll back that out later to > see, but right now have a bigger and more urgent problem getting mail > back in order following a major update. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
