On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:13, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to remove a file, yet it fails with ESTALE ("Stale NFS file
> handle"). I'm thinking that this is due to a corrupt inode but fsck
> fails to fix it.
>
> Is /lib/rc/console/unicode suppoed to be NFS or do I need to do a long
> hard fsck of /?
> --
> Andrey Vul
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

It's just a stale handle, i.e., some process opened the file, but the
file is then deleted, moved or renamed by another process.

If you know what process is holding the handle of the non-existent
file, restart it, if not, re-mount the file system.

-- Joe

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