[NTLUG:Discuss] Stale NFS file handles.

[Stephen J Baker]

I have (here at work) an SGI Onyx file server and a SuSE
Linux server - both on the same network.  I have another
SuSE Linux box on my desk which is mounting drives from
both servers.

When I move a particular set of files onto the Linux box
and run a large, complex compilation on them, I get a bunch
of 'Stale NFS file handle' complaints from my desktop machine.
Rerunning the same compilation sequence produces these errors
in different places each time (or so it seems).

Like this for example:

  gcc -shared  MsgSysObj.lo ShmemMsgSysObj.lo ShmemParcelObj.lo
          sharedMemory.lo host_api.lo message.lo clock.lo
          host_if_lib.lo  -ldl -lglut -lGLU -lGL -L/usr/X11R6/lib
          -lSM -lICE -lpthread -lX11 -lXi -lXext -lXmu -lm -lc
          -Wl,-soname -Wl,libhif.so.0 -o .libs/libhif.so.0.0.0
  host_if_lib.lo: file not recognized: Stale NFS file handle

The file it's complaining about always seems to be a '.lo' file.

This doesn't happen when the exact same files are on the SGI
machine's drives...so I presume this is some kind of a setup
problem on the Linux server end.

Does anyone know what I might have set up wrong?

Both Linux boxes are SuSE machines, the server is running a
2.2.7 kernel (SuSE 6.3 IIRC) and the desktop machine 2.2.14
(SuSE 6.4 for sure).  Both machines were installed with
vanilla settings - no special kernel drivers, basic IDE
hard drives, etc.  Mount options are the same for both
servers:

linus_server:/hda2           /usr/mnt1   nfs rw,soft,bg
sgi_server:/usr/people       /usr/mnt2   nfs rw,soft,bg

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