Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Michael Yang wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang <michael.yxf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I list files under my $HOME, I found following two files that can not
>> be accessed:
>>
>> ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle
>> ls: cannot access .Xauthority: Stale NFS file handle
>> total 2384
>> -?????????   ? ?       ?            ?                ? .xsession-errors
>> -?????????   ? ?       ?            ?                ? .Xauthority
>>
>> It looks like a remote access from NFS system from error message. But it is
>> my $HOME, which is a ext2 system. This is the entry in my /etc/fstab
>> /dev/sda8       /home           ext2    defaults        0       2
>>
>> This error is probably causing another problem of accessing my $HOME files
>> from GTK-based application. When I "open -> file" from a gtk-based
>> application to open a file under $HOME, I can not see any files of $HOME
>> from the "open..file" dialog.
>>
>> Anyone can help me with this?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>> Michael.
>>
>>
> Anybody can help with this?
>
> Thanks.

Please switch off HTML.

Try running fsck.

  $ sudo touch /forcefsck

then reboot.

-- 
Best,
Marc

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