Anyone know what's going on here? I'm ripping and ogg encoding some CDs using Grip. On one CD grip keeps segfaulting out, leaving me with a file that hangs ls -l eg: ls <filename> is fine, no problem characters in the filename ls -l <filename> is not, hangs forever echo * is fine touch * is fine but doesn't help chown me:grp * is fine but doesn't help chmod 644 * is fine but doesn't help I can cat it, but not cp it. I can rm it, then the directory becomes listable. I can continue the rip and meet the same problem with a later track. strace ls -l <filename> gives: <lots of lines snipped> lstat64("ls-fail", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6932, ...}) = 0 getxattr("strace.ls", "system.posix_acl_access", (nil), 0) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported) lstat64("light_in_time_of_darkness__glad_to_see_you.wav", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=95416320, ...}) = 0 getxattr("light_in_time_of_darkness__glad_to_see_you.wav", "system.posix_acl_access" and there it sits waiting for heat-death-of-universe. To cope with line-wrapping I've tabbed extensions in and put an extra newline at real line breaks. Looks like Grip is setting some strange ACLs. ls -l as root still hangs though. It's not just a character causing the trouble, my current problem file is: light_in_time_of_darkness__glad_to_see_you.wav and I've set permissions, owner, group, timestamps to sensible values. When vmware wouldn't start I went looking and fell into another... So I took the trouble to drop down to run level 1, unmount /home and do a fsck.reiser on it. It ran without finding any errors. Ran it again with --fix-fixable, still nothing, but now everything works and the files are listable! Hmpf, I don't like this, is something terribly wrong with reiserfs, or should just I not listen to Shakira? michaelj PS: cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.20-4GB (root@Pentium.suse.de) (gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)) #1 Mon Mar 17 17:54:44 UTC 2003 rpm -q k_deflt => k_deflt-2.4.20-39 I'm getting the new kernels now. -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166