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Re: What can cause a simple "ls" command hung?

 
Dennis Handly
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‎09-05-2012 10:59 AM

‎09-05-2012 10:59 AM

Re: What can cause a simple "ls" command hung?

>Even if you were sitting in a local directory, I've seen symbolic links, PATH variables, etc. cause an ls to hang if any of the NFS filesystems are not responding.

 

And shell history logging.

>That would show you which system call the ls command hung executing.

 

I think the big clue is stopped on VM.

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