Hmm, I have always had to reboot after these things happen.
It's moments like these that I tend to say that NFS means "Not a File
System" :)
Usually the machine that whinges about a stale NFS handle is NOT the one
that needs rebooting, it's the one that it's whinging about.
I have tried shutting down just the sequences that start NFS (in the reverse
order they were started), and have not had success yet (Linux NFS stop or
otherwise).
I find it embarrassing to have to reboot, but then it's even more
embarrassing to explain an outage.
So if anyone can suggest a better way...?
And, yes, it's usually caused by one machine being rebooted (eg power
outage, moving equipment) before everyone (on other machines) have finished
doing things with its files. Everyone (at work, on Solaris) includes people,
scripts, cron, license servers, etc.
At home (on Linux) we get the same silly effect and it's a bit annoying.
Usually happens when you are in a hurry.
Cheers,
Jill.
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Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
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