Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> writes: > Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will >> not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. > [...] >> It only seem to happen on $HOME.... how very odd. >> Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? > > No. But maybe 'strace ls' will show something? > > Is /home on a separate partition? I'd do a fsck on it. touch /forcefsck > or use a live cd for this. Good luck,
Just to close this thread... a reboot swept away all `ls' problems so still not sure what caused it, but am happily having normal experience with `ls' once again. The reboot was strictly unplanned, as the machine locked up overnight... no console access or by ssh, resulting in a hard manual reboot. When the machine came up, the `ls' problem had disappeared as well as sendmail problems discussed in a different thread. Thank you all for input and suggestions
