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