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

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:35:37PM -0500, Michael Yang wrote:
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> ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle
> ls: cannot access .Xauthority: Stale NFS file handle
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> Anyone can help me with this?

I have no idea but I uually use google on this kind of situation.  (At
least fro short info, there is no simple solution I can present.)

Peple may have had encountered similar and did much more dig in to solve
this.

Alas, I see many
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/stale-nfs-file-handle-error-369219/

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nfs-stale-file-handle-error-and-solution.html

...

But yor case is on local file... Did you check file permission of
.xsession-errors and .Xauthority.

Please post "ls -l ~/.xsession-errors ~/.Xauthority"

Osamu

 
> Thanks very much.
> Michael.