In message <20050810101831.GA12124@grouper.salmi.ch>, Jukka Salmi writes:
>Do you use the fdesc file system on the system in question? After
>unmounting fdesc (mounted on /dev) on one of the systems where I saw
>the same problem du(1) suddenly worked fine...

No fdesc on it.  And, in any event, it's happening running du on a MSDOS
filesystem.

BTW, "find . -maxdepth 1 -print" works, "find . -maxdepth 2 -print" fails,
but there is no subdirectory on which find fails.  This makes no sense
at all to me.

-s