We ran into this issue couple of weeks ago. There is a ticket about this bug with the NFS v3+4. Our work around was to mount it with a different version of NFS.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736394#c13 is also referenced by http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6241. -T On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Evan Sather <esat...@anl.gov> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We're experiencing NFS-related problems after viewing home directories on > SL6 desktops. SL5 clients do not experience this problem. The NFS server > is a SL5 machine. > > One of our desktops outputs this: > > [user@host1 ~]$ ls -ltr |tail > ls: reading directory .: Invalid argument > > > Another of our desktops outputs this: > > [user@host2 ~]$ ls -l > ls: reading directory .: Too many levels of symbolic links > > Has anyone else seen this or a similar issue? Does anyone have any > suggestions? > > -- > *Evan Sather* > Linux System Administrator > High Energy Physics > Argonne National Laboratory > >