Re: [casper] Roach issue: Stale NFS file handle error is reported

[Jason Manley]

This is complaining about the statefile (ifstate) not being writeable.  
This is probably a problem with your filesystem. Are you using an NFS  
filesystem? is it mounted R/W, or Read-only?

BTW, now that I've seen your interfaces file, I suspect the reason  
your interface is not coming up automatically is because you've left  
out the "auto eth0" line...

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address 192.168.1.36
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 192.168.1.1

Jason

On 22 May 2009, at 07:40, <wan.ch...@csiro.au> <wan.ch...@csiro.au>  
wrote:

Hi:

In order to set a static IP address to roach Ethernet port, I insert  
the following configuration to the /etc/network/interfaces:

iface eth0 inet static
address 130.155.199.211
netmask 255.255.240.0
gateway 130.155.192.2
dns-nameservers 130.155.194.32 130.155.192.40

Then I

ifdown eth0
ifup eth0

So the Ethernet port works properly.

But when I restart the Roach, I could not run ifdown and ifup  
command anymore. A failure is reported:
ifdown: failed to open statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: Stale NFS  
file handl

Then I run ls /etc/network/run/ifstate, similar error is reported:

ls: /etc/network/run/ifstate: Stale NFS file handle

This is repeatable.

Anybody has any idea?

Thanks

Wan