Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday July 16 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Thursday 16 July 2009 11:14:48 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > On Thursday July 16 2009, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > Listmates,
> > >
> > >   I must have had a script go bad and completely screw up a file
> > > or two in a directory and now I cannot "ls" the directory, I
> > > cannot "rm -rf" the directory, but I can "mv" the directory and I
> > > can "cd" into the directory.
> >
> > In what manner do the commands that fail when operating on that
> > directory do so?
>
> Randall,
>
>       When I issue "ls -al" or "rm", the command just "get stuck" until I
> start another terminal and "kill -9 PID". A simple kill won't work.

I suspect they just exceeded your patience and were not literally hung 
in any real way (deadlocked, e.g.).


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> David C. Rankin


Randall Schulz
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