From: Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com>
Subject: Re: dired hangs on nfs dir
Date: 10 Mar 2004 12:00:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ik71s79r7.fsf@neoscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2ptbklfb0.fsf@mother.paradise.lost
This is not a emacs problem. Try "ls -l" in a shell to see.
Check your NIS server.
-kin
John Hunter <jdhunter@ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> writes:
> I have several dirs on my LAN NFS mounted. I cannot open them in
> dired - find-file just hangs indefinitely when I try to open one of
> these NFS dirs. Interestingly, I can open files in the dir, tab
> completion works, and TAB TAB lists all the files in the dir.
>
> This happens also when I launch with -q --no-site-file. Here is the
> *Messages buffer*
>
> (emacs -q --no-site-file)
> Loading disp-table...done
> For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
> Loading dired...done
> Reading directory /home/jdhunter/tex/...
> Waiting for process to die...(type C-g again to kill it instantly)
> insert-directory: Quit
>
>
> Any thoughts on what the problem may be or what I can do to debug it?
> I tried restarting nfs on the server - no luck.
>
> The same problem occurs on dirs from different NFS servers. Locally
> mounted dirs open fine.
>
> Finally, this is a new problem. A couple of weeks ago it worked fine
> with the same version of emacs, the same OSs on client and server.
>
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
>
> GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> 2002-04-2\9 on mother.paradise.lost
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2004-03-10 18:36 dired hangs on nfs dir John Hunter
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