directory not found when cd

[VAN MECKEREN]

a user was working in a directory and he said that suddently, he can't go into this directory.
We checked and try with root, but we have exactly the same problem.
when we do ls whe can see the directory but with cd we receive a not found
thanks

[john korterman]

Hi,
perhaps some garbage character has sneaked into the filename. Try listing the dir name by:
# ls -ldb
or
ls -ld | cat -v
in order to display special characters.

regards,
John K.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

This will be bad characters


What does ll -d give for protection

does

cd first_few_letters* work


Steve Steel

[Victor Fridyev]

Check whether the dirname is a link to a real directory. In this case, if real directory is deleted or renamed, cd to the link is problematic.

Regards

[VAN MECKEREN]

hi,

we just tried the two commands, but we got again a not found.

thanks

[john korterman]

Hi again
please go into the directory above the one you cannot access and execute:
# ls -b
or
# ls | cat -v
and look for the file name, or something similar, in the output.

regards,
John K.

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Has the directory execution right ?

# chmod 400 my_dir
# cd my_dir
/usr/dt/bin/dtksh: cd: my_dir: [Permission denied]

[SureshKumar_2]

hi

Plz check the permission

#ls -la

If u r not finding proper permission, make req. permission. (User-Group-Others)

The below shows the all permission to the user. (for checking u can use this and then change as required)

#chmod 777



ALL THE BEST

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Is this directory nfs

Then you could get this


ll directory

What does it give


Steve Steel

[SureshKumar_2]

Hi

It looks like NFS/FS mount.

could u provide
*) BDF Output
*) fstab
*) mnttab
*) ls -la


This will help us to find out the root cause.