Stale NFS file handle

gazj · 2008-10-28 18:53:36

I cannot delete read / write my ~/.viminfo file.

[gary@Holly ~]$ rm .viminfo 
rm: cannot remove `.viminfo': Stale NFS file handle

The thing is it's not an nfs volume, this directory does however sync using unison with a nfs volume, I am guessing this is how it got on my system.

The file permissions appear as follows

[gary@Holly ~]$ ls -lah | grep viminfo
ls: cannot access .viminfo: Stale NFS file handle
-?????????  ? ?    ?        ?                ? .viminfo

Any ideas on how I can delete it?

EDIT: Have tried fsck on boot, no luck

Its kinda annoying because vim errors all the time because it cannot write to .viminfo

Thanks in advance

Last edited by gazj (2008-10-28 18:55:56)

gazj · 2008-10-29 23:55:47

Really has nobody got some pointers?

Procyon · 2008-11-01 18:14:34

Same problem here.

My computer crashed, I reset and pacman started to complain about some packages.

I ran find / -printf '%i' 1>/dev/null to look for issues
It's isolated to:

/var/lib/pacman/local/
$ find -printf '%i' 1>/dev/null
find: `./lua-5.1.4-2': Stale NFS file handle
find: `./pygobject-2.15.4-1': Stale NFS file handle
find: `./pygtk-2.13.0-1': Stale NFS file handle

pacman now thinks these packages aren't on the system, and I can't install/uninstall them anymore.

I have also tried fsck on boot without luck. (nothing in lost+found)

EDIT and I don't have any NFS partitions

EDIT: Whoops! /var/lib/pacman is on a loopback device
I ran fsck /var/lib/pacman.db which found the errors/missing inodes
I think it was caused by the mirror not being up to date and reporting the wrong packages to pacman -Sy. Now I just need to reinstall them and then uninstall them again to remove all the files.

Last edited by Procyon (2008-11-01 18:24:27)

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#1 2008-10-28 18:53:36

Stale NFS file handle

#2 2008-10-29 23:55:47

Re: Stale NFS file handle

#3 2008-11-01 18:14:34

Re: Stale NFS file handle

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