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

[Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Are you sure that you do not have an nfs mount on top of the /home
local mount in fstab?


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