topic Re: rm on a directory hangs in Operating System - Linux

rm on a directory hangs

dsi.ts.sis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:52:28 GMT

I cannot rm a directory under /root, session hangs and the same thing happens when i try to do ls -la /root, but if i do ls -1 /root/ it works... i know what directory under /root is causing the problem but i cannot remove it...
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Re: rm on a directory hangs

dsi.ts.sis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:58:47 GMT

Forgot to mention there's no NFS service on this server

Re: rm on a directory hangs

D. Jackson_1 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:02:45 GMT

It could be a file with corrupt inode information. I had the same issues recently on a Linux system. Had to do an fsck on the logical volume with it unmounted.
You will need to take the system to lvm maint mode most likely and fsck it.
Search the forums for inode corruption, it should give you some ideas.

DCJ

Re: rm on a directory hangs

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:15:08 GMT

Is this really happening only with this directory or other directories also?

Do you use LDAP or NIS to maintain user and group information?

Have you verified if there are some open files on that directory?

Re: rm on a directory hangs

dsi.ts.sis — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:22:51 GMT

Hi

It's only happening under /root/
If i do fuser -ku /root/ it just doesn't work, the processes never get killed...
This is a web server with no NIS or LDAP.

Is there anything else i could try or rebooting is the only solution?

Re: rm on a directory hangs

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:28:28 GMT

do you try to remove certain directory under /root, like /root/kuku?

as already said, it seems like there is a problem with "/" filesystem. reboot with "fsck" should help in this case.

Re: rm on a directory hangs

dsi.ts.sis — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:42:41 GMT

Yes Vitaly, i'm trying to remove /root/prueba
but everything i try fails... i cannot do an 'ls -la' or 'rm' on that dir because the command hangs...
fuser tells me there are processes under /root/ but i cannot kill them.

Re: rm on a directory hangs

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:44 GMT

for sure you have process which uses "/root" because you're logged in as root.

but this shouldn't prevent you from delete /root/prueba

so I suggest to reboot

Re: rm on a directory hangs

dsi.ts.sis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:23:38 GMT

Reboot was the solution