From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 21:04:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA17121 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA17116 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA21514; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 14:03:44 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id NAA14919; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:33:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970830133344.53078@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 13:33:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handle. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Sat, Aug 30, 1997 at 01:41:58PM +1000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Aug 30, 1997 at 01:41:58PM +1000, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > Hi, > > I went to type make install ona n NFS mounted partition and got the error: > > # make install > make: Stale NFS file handle > > Anyone know hwat it means? It means that the file system in question was unmounted and remounted by the remote server, probably not in the same manner (i.e. a different file system, or some such), while it remained mounted on your machine. The most common reason for this is that the remote system is rebooted. This can also happen if mountd dies on the remote file system, but in this case you can't unmount and mount it. Otherwise, > I had to umount and remount the partition to get it working again... That's the right thing to do. Greg