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.
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