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Apparently, though unproven, at 14:51 on Monday 01 November 2010, Harry Putnam |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> >> > What shell are you using? |
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> >> > What is the output of "echo $HOME"? |
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> >> My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: |
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> >> Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262 |
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> > That's the terminal. |
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> > What shell do you use/ |
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> Sorry... still asleep... bash-4.1_p9 |
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> Willie Wong <wwong@××××××××××××××.EDU> writes: |
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> > Before we go further, when you said `ls' will not complete against |
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> > $HOME, which of the following scenario did you mean? |
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> > a) you typed `ls $HOME' as a user (the one I think Alan thinks you |
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> > mean) |
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> > b) you type `ls' while in your home directory (/home/reader) |
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> > c) you typed `ls /home/reader' ? |
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> All three of those produce the same effect. Also if run from root |
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> shell against my users home `# ls /home/reader' |
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> The command just hangs there as described. |
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> However, as indicated earlier... my user or root can run `ls' against |
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> any other directory like normal. |
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> ls /etc |
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> Shows the content of /etc |
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> ls /home/reader |
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> Hangs eternally. |
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> Also, as mentioned, I can view /home/reader with emacs in dired |
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> (directory) mode, Which oddly enough uses ls and ls switches for that |
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> display far as I know. |
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> However, vim will not display /home/reader... and |
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> hangs eternally... requiring the shell to be killed. |
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> Viewing $HOME with emacs shows nothing untoward that I see. I thought |
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> maybe I'd somehow acquired thousands of files and `ls' was just taking |
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> forever to display the list... but no... nothing unusual in $HOME. |
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I suspect directory corruption in /home - is it a separate partition? |
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I don't recall if you mentioned this or not, do you get the same result if you |
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run "ls $HOME" as root? root's home dir is not on /home so that will vbe a |
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valuable clue. If that command works, do an fsck on /home |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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