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Kevin Coulter

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More options Dec 1 2004, 5:01 pm

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From: ke...@qantel.com (Kevin Coulter)

Date: 1 Dec 2004 14:01:35 -0800

Local: Wed, Dec 1 2004 5:01 pm

Subject: Hangs doing ls -l but not ls

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I've got a customer with 5.0.6, RS506A, OSS646B installed.

Systems "seems" fine, except cd drive does not work, and sometimes
tape drive does not work. We can boot off of CD without trouble.

Went poking around: If I am in root, do a "ls" I see the listing. If I
do "ls -l" it hangs. Same thing in /dev. Tried redirecting output to a
file, no help. Still hangs. When I hang, I have to kill the session,
ps still shows it active, kill -9 does not clean it up.

Something in /dev is still there, as I can sometimes hit the tape
device, /dev/rStp0, and our software uses the serial port, /dev/tty1a,
and that is working fine. If I do "file /dev/rStp0" or "file
/dev/tty1a" it works fine, if I do "file /dev/cd0" it hangs.

Ideas? I'm looking for a way to "fix" this without reload if
possible.... also need to try to confirm it is a UNIX issue, not a
hardware issue.

System does seem to reboot ok, but I'm trying to avoid doing reboots
without a good reason....

Thanks,
Kevin

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