Gurus,
Many thanks for the quick responses, and the time people spent. I had many people indicate that an ls -l that freezes on the / directory could be because I have a NFS mount point on / which is stale. Without going into to much detail, I know this not to be the case, and I have confirmed this with my rc.config (looking for Automounts etc)
Let me add a some more detail.
This is happening to three machines (V4.0 878 alpha), but two other machines do not do this.
if I do an ls -l on the / the shell freezes. I can not kill the shell process. kill -9 or kill -KILL does not work on the process ID.
If I do an ls or a cd /etc/ or any directory ( ls /opt/usr/foo/bar/ ) with a closing / the shell will freeze as well.
If I do a for loop as follows...
# for x in `ls -1 / `
> do
> ls -l "$x"
> done
I get a proper listing of all file/dir attributes, however when it gets to the /vmunix file it freezes.
I appreciate that the information may still be thin, but if any one can ask me appropriate questions to steer me in the correct direction, I would be very grateful.
Many Thanks in Advance, and as per norm I will Summarize.
Cian
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Cian O'Sullivan
Senior Systems Engineer
Logic Communications
12 Par -la-Ville Road
Hamilton, HMJX
BERMUDA
Phone - (+1) 441-296-9601
Fax - (+1) 441-295-1149
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Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 15:30:01 NZDT