topic Re: "ls -al" not responding in Operating System - HP-UX

"ls -al" not responding

Onur Sirin_1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:11:50 GMT

Hi,
I have a server HP UX 11.11.
On root domain, "ls -al" command is not responding.
When I enter "ls -al" command on /,
it waits and gives no response.
But "ls" command is working.

What is the reason of problem??

Thanks & Best regards.

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Keith Bryson — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:23:24 GMT

Is a 'bdf' responding? If not, this could be an issue with NFS. Do you have any remote NFS mounts on this server?

Keith

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:31:13 GMT

If it is not nfs-related (but that IS the reason in 99% of cases), it might be some alias issue.

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Hoang Minh Tuan — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:08:11 GMT

maybe the reason is alias setting, check by issue command #alias. If it have, unalias it by command #unalias

You also check bdf, maybe the file system is full and pvdislay, lvdisplay /dev/vg00/lvol3 to show out abnormal information.

HMT

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Onur Sirin_1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:48:45 GMT

Hi,
yes you're right. IT seems a NFS problem.
When I wait long time, it gives the error below:
"NFS server (pid774@/net) not responding still trying"

Any suggestions?

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Govinda_1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:54:11 GMT

hi,

Check if your NFS server is alive, and all the NFS mounts are available, check using bdf see all the mounts are available. if your not using NFS. u can stop the nfs server/client.

#/sbin/init.d/nfs.server stop
#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

Thanks & Regards,
Govinda G.

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Keith Bryson — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:40:19 GMT

Be aware - you will probably have to re-boot to clear this - NFS sucks sometimes.

KB

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 05:53:33 GMT

You may get some help by looking at the file /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

If there are a lot of files to be listed, this command can be a significant CPU hog and take a long time to finish.

Generally, root should not have real files, just folders to mount.

ps -ef | grep nfsd

Will show you how many nfs processes you have running.

Errors, even misplaced dots in network configuration /etc/rc.config.d/netconf can hang nfs up pretty well.

SEP

Re: "ls -al" not responding

Onur Sirin_1 — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:37:49 GMT

Hi,
it was a NFS problem.
Restarting nfs daemons didn't solve the problems.
After rebooting the machine, problem is fixed.
Thanks for all replies
Best regards