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i suppose this one might be solved by rebooting but that's not exactly a favorable option. this is occuring while i telnet into the system since it is in a remote location. basically when i run "df -k" my session hangs. also if i'm in / and run "ls -l" it hangs. i can run "ls -l" in any other directory and it doesn't hang and i can run "ls" in / and it doesn't hang. any ideas? the easy option is just to reboot but that's not exactly the solution i'm looking for since there are users on it constantly.
Does the system mount have any NFS mounts at the root level? Is there more than one disk mounted at the root level? If "df" or "cd /; ls" hangs, that's a sign that something mounted at the root level isn't accesible.
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i checked fstab and no there are no nfs mounts at the root level. there are two raids connected at the root level though; however, i can access each of those drives without hangup.
well, now here is the cryptic thing. "ls" by itself works at the root level but "ls -l" doesn't and "df" doesn't.
well, now here is the cryptic thing. "ls" by itself works at the root level but "ls -l" doesn't and "df" doesn't.
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excellent! i found out it was a directory that someone was trying to put an nfs mount on but badly misconfigured it.
Well, I'm glad that was it, I was beginning to think it might some strange thing with an corrupted inode (in a way it sort of was, but fortunately not in a catastrophic way).