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The ls -la command hangs on root (/) filesystem (Doc ID 1001785.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 28, 2023

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 8 to 10 1/13 U11 [Release 8.0 to 10.0]
All Platforms

Symptoms

The ls -la command hangs on root (/) filesystem:

Running "ls -la /" hangs, yet running "ls -la" to other root directories (i.e. ls -la /usr) does NOT hang. Review of /var/adm/messages shows NFS related errors, even though this is NOT a true NFS client. Here are the errors that may appear in the /var/adm/messages file when the "ls -la /" hangs:

Mar 28 09:23:19 moe nfs: [ID 333984 kern.notice] NFS server for volume management \ (/vol) not responding still trying

Mar 28 09:31:13 moe nfs: [ID 664466 kern.notice] NFS getattr failed for server for \ volume management (/vol): error 23 (RPC: Unitdata error)

In this particular situation, this client was mounting a CD remotely from another system, which was shutdown before unsharing the CD, and before the client could unmount the remote CD mount.

The tail end of a truss shows that it was hanging on /vol as well (line numbers set and it was hanging on line 256-257):

# cd /

  
 *** process killed ***

Cause

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