2009/4/10 Tony White <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/9 Marc Weber <[email protected]>: >>> Thanks Marc, >>> I've re-installed because something I'd done had really screwed things >>> up, I wouldn't normally but my level of understanding is not quite >>> good enough yet. >>> I was wrong, It wasn't stale locks, It was "Stale NFS file handle." >>> I think it had something to do with subscribing to a specific channel, >>> Updating the expressions from it and then removing the channel. >> >> So it was not related to this? >> http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/stale_nfs.txt >> >> Marc Weber >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > > Yes, It was that although I'm not sure why or where nfs is being used. > Does NixOS's configuration tools use nfs somehow? > I can't see how, Looks like subversion is used but not nfs? > I certainly didn't try to create any nfs mount points. > Slightly puzzled. > > Tony >
I've got some better info on this now and how to fix it because it happened again : sh-3.2$ sudo nixos-rebuild switch obtaining list of Nix archives at `http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST.bz2'... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 6087 store paths in manifest error: statting `/nix/var/nix/profiles/system': Stale NFS file handle error: statting `/nix/var/nix/profiles/system': Stale NFS file handle Looks to be the same problem as this : http://stoilis.blogspot.com/2005/05/stale-nfs-handle.html However the issue disappeared after I booted into my other Linux install and issued fsck on the partition, Answering yes to all questions and there were lots of problems. I'll be able to work out if my other Linux install (Mandriva) Is causing the file system corruption when it's mounting or writing to the filesystem or whether it's because the system isn't powering down cleanly, Over time. I'll keep my eye on it and investigate further if I can pin point the precise reason for the corruption. Thanks for the help so far, I'm sure that trying to get nixos-rebuild to workout that it's file system corruption causing this issue and then setting and notifying of an fsck job at next boot would be a great idea but seriously difficult or even near to impossible to implement. At least I know what's going on now, Better the devil you know. Tony _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
