On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've seen it wait long periods of time doing "ls /" when the root > directory contains links to networked directories which are either on > machines which are no longer running or having problems. Similarly, I had a symbolic link in my home directory to a nonexistent file under autofs's /misc directory. Anything that tried to access my home directory froze. Very frustrating, though running an ls under strace helped pinpoint the problem. (I don't know why referring to a nonexistent file under /misc would suddenly and out of the blue cause it to hang, that's another issue....) reid
