"Stale NFS Handler"

Thomas King kingttx at tomslinux.homelinux.org
Tue Dec 16 19:51:59 UTC 2008


I have looked for any other reports on this particular issue and cannot find
any. Please point me to the correct workaround if it exists.

I've set up a liveUSB key for Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 on a 4GB USB key with a 2GB
persistent overlay using the LiveUSB Creator. After running _some_ updates
(nothing big, around 50MB) and changing some configurations, I begin getting an
error for some files: "Stale NFS Handler". The file will not open. In this past
trial, I tried opening /etc/resolv.conf because I was getting an IP address
assigned via DHCP; before running updates, I could ping inside and outside the
network. After running updates, it would not ping anything using the FQDN,
prompting me to look at the /etc/resolv.conf file which threw the stale NFS
handler error. This is merely an example since I've had other files unrelated to
networking to throw the same error.

Are there any workarounds for this?

Thanks!
Tom King
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