The . tell you the current directory. The stale NFS handle sys that the directory (nfs mounted) is no longer valid. If the file server you are mounting the directory from has a faulty network card this would cause this to happen every now and then. I have found that onboard ethernet cards are not very good (a $10.00 card is better than the onboard). If you do a df you will also see the file system reported as stale there as well. To correct a Stale NFS handle in Linux will require a reboot. Under Solaris an umount -f <filesystem> will remove the faulty NFS mount, I have found this does not work in Linux.
Mike On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 12:58, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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 > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Noble mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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