Comment 0 for bug 264313

Binary package hint: coreutils

ls --color hangs for directories linked from network resources if those resources are not available
I guess it hangs in trying to validate the link ( have not tried to wait and see if it times out or not )

easily reproducible.

annoying since --color is default

Running Ubuntu 8.0.4
2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 16:57:51 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ls (GNU coreutils) 6.10