From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3ELP-0004nv-Oq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:33:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9239E03B3; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB99E03B3 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b32so537427ika.2 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ArSxSTwPl4mqkGACTUYPw564NRgfTJ7v0iPdYnjRbFk=; b=bnSO8Ekmdravm1x+ljx0b+NREknIDCk9KFyMeXBJxLJLyg2E2CedgpyBKtWcVKT6I7 MEMFE8XF9X561kY9AMq7cdygDcAw3jAFY9AsGbPeRMBEXhLORuCgTiBo97K78zgEtRvF xDPeByZ7Yej7VdLwP/1dfqSoWbvf+l9wyPV5I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=PiGfymvzr696nlbRgs9TEa6/gEzVdcQCBcWjlBwvWCBWxL2rQT6VY/kErbBeZxSOmP P3WlUsa+anwAlGupjTthZWswDFKNfw01NzW+btp9SW/svtvbzkDwYXMmIU78A5YdygkJ RI3Zr3tdxxeADusu4hsHhHFlEFvrJLV6yTviI= Received: by 10.86.84.5 with SMTP id h5mr1791709fgb.10.1227206013096; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.91.15 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:33:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:33:33 +0000 From: "Qian Qiao" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] forcing file removal, fails with ESTALE In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: c9d5e824-cbc0-4e41-977d-1b90182464ae X-Archives-Hash: 857fe92c356e15c42c1d456db6c0c9ac On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 18:13, Andrey Vul wrote: > I'm trying to remove a file, yet it fails with ESTALE ("Stale NFS file > handle"). I'm thinking that this is due to a corrupt inode but fsck > fails to fix it. > > Is /lib/rc/console/unicode suppoed to be NFS or do I need to do a long > hard fsck of /? > -- > Andrey Vul > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? It's just a stale handle, i.e., some process opened the file, but the file is then deleted, moved or renamed by another process. If you know what process is holding the handle of the non-existent file, restart it, if not, re-mount the file system. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.