problem with home directory

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/2 Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>:
> Hello,
>
> Since a couple of weeks I have a problem with my home directory. Any
> application that lists my home directory (/home/amuls/) is stalled for several
> minutes, eg dolphin, k3b, konqueror (filemangement), ...
>
> A ls in the home directory also stalls for several minutes.
> Starting emacs (from menu of from home dir) also makes the startup time very
> long.
>
> Doing similar things in any other directory does not cause a similar problem.
>
> I already looked at the contents but I cannot find anything wrong. Any advice?
>
> Tx/Alain
>

I would try to run check on the disk to see if could be some damages
to the filesystem or the harddrive. Do the same happens if you do the
list from another user or root or if you boot from a Live-CD, mount
the disc and run ls on the folder?

/ Jonas