topic Re: ls -l hangs in Operating System - HP-UX

ls -l hangs

EZ2007 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:18:23 GMT

When I issue "ls" / ,it list files but when issuing "ls -l" / it hangs. The data protector is backing everything except / filesystem.

Re: ls -l hangs

T G Manikandan — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:22:53 GMT

Might be the resource utilization is more on the server.

you can check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file to see if there are weird errors with the file.

Re: ls -l hangs

Dennis Handly — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:23:44 GMT

ll(1) will hang if you have a NFS mount point that isn't responding.

Re: ls -l hangs

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:29:23 GMT

Shalom,

Many possible causes.

Check for stale NFS links, locked files with DP.

DP is not a good OS backup tool, because it can not produce bootable images. See Ignite for that.

SEP

Re: ls -l hangs

EZ2007 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:31:54 GMT

I am not using any NFS. Is this have to do with licenses or smtg?

Re: ls -l hangs

Robert-Jan Goossens — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:35:51 GMT

Hi,

any error messages the syslog.log file?

Robert-Jan

Re: ls -l hangs

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:39:44 GMT

Hi:

Did you perhaps use the 'pfs_mount' command to mount a CD? This uses NFS services and is a deprecated, brittle utility that leads to a reboot if used incorrectly.

Regards!

..JRF...

Re: ls -l hangs

Ivan Krastev — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:08:10 GMT

Possible reason can be bad mount point.
Check all mount points on the server.

regards,
ivan

Re: ls -l hangs

V. Nyga — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:50:33 GMT

Hi,

can you show us /etc/fstab ?

Volkmar

Re: ls -l hangs

Philip Gunter — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:37:42 GMT

Are you running NIS or any other remote directory service? If "ls /" is working then I'd guess the delay is caused by a lookup of user/group details when doing ls -l.

Cheers,
Philip.

Re: ls -l hangs

Dennis Handly — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:30:47 GMT

>Philip: If "ls /" is working then I'd guess the delay is caused by a lookup of user/group details when doing ls -l.

That could be it. Though ls / won't do a stat on each file. Using "ll -n /" shouldn't look up the UID/GID but still does the stat.

Re: ls -l hangs

YMJ — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:09:48 GMT

if you have too many files. it will hangs