Great! I didn't know about sync. What I did to fix the problem was have everyone log off and kill any processes accessing their home directories. Then I logged in as root and unmounted and remounted the partition. I'll try sync'ing next time.
Patrick Nelson wrote: > > Hidong Kim wrote: > ----------------->>>> > We have an NIS network of several Red Hat machines. I just upgraded the > NIS server to Red Hat 7.2. One of the NFS mounted partitions is > /home/users which is local to the NIS server. This partition contains > everyone's home directory. Since upgrading the NIS server to 7.2, when > I log into one of the other machines, I get this message: > > bash: /home/users/kim/.bashrc: Stale NFS file handle > bash: /home/users/kim/.bashrc: Stale NFS file handle > > The login directory is what I expect, but it doesn't appear to be > reading ~/.bashrc, except when I log in to the NIS server machine. None > of the environmental variables defined in ~/.bashrc work when logging in > to an NIS client. All of the NFS mounted partitions are showing up on > all machines. How do I get ~/.bashrc active on all machines? Thanks, > ----------------->>>> > > I have been patiently waiting for someone to reply to this problem. I too > see it way to often. It is stifling when it happens. Yesterday, I was in a > moment of almost spiritual level programming, when I tried to save my work > it came up and said that it couldn't because the nfs link had become > stale... I tried to resolve this by running: > > /etc/rc.d/netfs stop > /etc/rc.d/netfs start > > and when that didn't work: > > /etc/rc.d/netfs restart > > and when that didn't work: > > umounting and mounting the fs to their respective mount points > > and when that didn't work... > > saved the file to a local file system > > Even though I was able to save it locally I was pretty upset that I wasn't > able to do it on the nfs fs. Then I tried something that seemed to work > (while not a solution to understanding stale nfs fs's which I really don't > understand- nuf said). I went into the nfs subdir (could only go so far > cause of the stale prob) and I typed: > > sync > > which then allowed me to move further into the subdir that I was headed to. > I kept doing this until I got into the subdir I was wanting to save the file > and I synced that too then I tried to save again... It saved it! > > While I'm not sure how to deal with the nfs stale fs errors, I thought this > might help you as it has me when I'm faced with a Stale NFS error. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
