On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:40PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
| Hey people.
|
| At work currently, I'm mounting my home directory over NFS. Today I tried
| to tar up a directory, and a single file produced a complaint of "cannot stat:
| I/O Error". I logged into an HP-UX box mounting my same home directory and did
| the same thing there. No problem. Apparently it's just with Linux.
|
| Any ideas? I can't ls the file, or access it in any way, since stat()
| fails.
Probably the server went down, then back up, while you had the export
mounted or some other process removed the directory on you. In either
case it is a stale handle. Simply remount the directory or kill
whatever process may be using a file in the directory, or "cd ~ ; cd
<where you used to be>" to refresh it.
I saw a thing like this at school once. It turned out, in that case,
that a process on a windows client had a file open while trying to
delete it from the linux box.
-D
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"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as
meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
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