Filesystem lock?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:46:40AM +0000, Celso Pinto wrote:

> I'm running a hoary system with reiserfs. A few days ago, somehow when I
> tried to execute ls on a directory the command simply stalled. 
> I couldn't kill it with kill -9, lsof showed that in fact ls was running
> on that directory.

Check dmesg and/or /var/log/kern.log; you'll likely find a kernel panic
there.

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 - mdz