Stumped. ls and top and ? suddenly just hang...

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Posted by XLT_Frank, 05-14-2014, 10:49 PM
Even as root, I am finding a CentOS Xen server I help manage just went stupid. Top won't work at all, ls will not work in numerous directories. They all result in SSH hanging. I can navigate to most directories, just not view them. For directories I can view, if I do a touch abc.txt, no problem with appropriate own/mod. If I do vi abc.txt and it will not let me edit it. Thoughts?
Posted by manhalab, 05-15-2014, 01:29 AM
Hi check, Make sure you are not logged in a sudo user Check login user root .. uid,guid etc .. who -a Could be disk space issue. df -h fdisk -l and df -i Also would be a great idea to check the permissions and ownerships of the binaries of the commands that you are having issues with. Last edited by manhalab; 05-15-2014 at 01:37 AM.
Posted by XLT_Frank, 05-15-2014, 06:46 AM
So here are some examples.... FAIL FAIL Here is the disk issues.... Here is some attempts to look at permissions. When I went to do history for referencing something, the terminal locked again... It looks like someone dorked up some permissions....
Posted by manhalab, 05-17-2014, 10:22 AM
for binary commands like chmod or chown try giving it parameters with actual files and then provide output, so that we can actually see the error

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