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Hello everyone I'm trying to cd into a particular directory ( it's a mounted directory from a remote computer ) but cd hangs forever until I kill it with Ctrl+C. ...
  1. 07-24-2009 #1
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    cd command hangs

    Hello everyone

    I'm trying to cd into a particular directory (it's a mounted directory from a remote computer) but cd hangs forever until I kill it with Ctrl+C.
    I tried the same from other computers and it worked fine, only when I try it from this particular computer the problem appears.

    Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions, please?
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    Usually it is because either the remote computer isn't responding (it has been shut down perhaps), or this computer cannot find a route to the remote system. Have you tried remounting the remote file system? Or rebooting?
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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    Thank you for your reply.

    Remounting (mount -a) didn't make any difference.
    I will try rebooting and hopefully it'll solve the problem.

    Any other ideas please, in case rebooting doesn't fix the problem?
    Maybe ./nfs restart??
    The "problematic" computer is online, I can access its shared directory from any other machine.
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    Actually, I meant for you to umount then mount again. The mount -a command will only remount unmounted volumes.
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    OK! I did umount -a then mount -a but no joy.
    I will reboot and see how it goes.

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    Can you ping the remote system? If so, and you can mount it, then I have to think that either the remote nfs server is not allowing you to access it. What are you using for user authentication - NIS? OpenLDAP?
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    Thumbs up

    Rebooting solved my problem, I can now cd with no problems.

    Thanks a lot for your help Rubberman!
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