On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 00:48, charlie wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:38 pm, James Sparenberg had this to contribute :- > > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 16:03, charlie wrote: > > > Using ls in konsole or XTerm, I sometimes get the following message :- > > > > > > ls: .: stale NFS file handle > > > > > > Can someone tell me what this means? > > > > > > Charlie > > > > AFAIK it's actually saying that an NFS mount is trying to find a file > > that has been moved or removed on the distant end and no longer viable. > > If you don't use NFS removing the rpms for it would probably prevent it > > from re-occuring. If you do, sounds like one of your mounts is getting > > changed by another user and affecting you. I did notice that around > > 2.4.19 they were working on this in the kernel... Here is a link to > > some of that info. > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02521.html > > > > James > > Thanks James, but NFS is not installed and just in case I checked the system, > but no NFS rpm's either.
Hmmmm every time I've seen this it's been related to NFS ... AFS or some similar product. What kernel do you run? James
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