Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

[Mark Phillips]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jason Holtzapple <ml at bitflip.net> wrote:

> On 02/25/2011 09:32 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jason Holtzapple <ml at bitflip.net
> > <mailto:ml at bitflip.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 02/25/2011 08:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >     > I have two disks running in a Debian machine ( Linux version
> >     > 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (dannf at debian.org
> >     <mailto:dannf at debian.org>
> >     > <mailto:dannf at debian.org <mailto:dannf at debian.org>>) (gcc version
> >     4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease)
> >     > (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009). One disk
> has
> >     > the OS, the other disk has lots of photos and the program gallery3
> >     > (http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3_begins) to display them on
> the
> >     > web. The disk controller channel for the photo disk died, but the
> os
> >     > kept on running. I replaced the controller card, and now both
> >     drives are
> >     > running. However, I am getting some stale NFS file handles on some
> of
> >     > the images on the photo drive. I don't use NFS on this machine, or
> any
> >     > machine on my network. However, the pictures with the stale NFS
> file
> >     > handles do not display when I run gallery.
> >     >
> >     > How should I fix this problem? Delete and re-install the offending
> >     > pictures? Run fsck on the photos drive? Stop taking so many
> >     pictures? ;-)
> >     >
> >     > Thanks!
> >     >
> >     > Mark
> >     >
> >     > These are the errors:
> >     >
> >     > hammerhead:/home/mark# du -hs /backups
> >     > du: cannot access
> `/backups/gallery3/var/resizes/11-01-2010/2010:11:01
> >     > 08:11:50 295.JPG': Stale NFS file handle
> >
> >     This is strange - you shouldn't be getting these errors unless you
> are
> >     an NFS client. Double check your /etc/fstab and /etc/exports files.
> If
> >     that doesn't make sense post the output of these two commands to the
> >     list:
> >
> >     # grep nfs /etc/fstab
> >
> >     # egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports
> >
> >
> > hammerhead:/home/mark# grep nfs /etc/fstab
> > hammerhead:/home/mark#
> > hammerhead:/home/mark# egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports
> > /home/mark/vmware    192.168.25.0/255.255.255.0(rw)<http://192.168.25.0/255.255.255.0%28rw%29>
> > <http://192.168.25.0/255.255.255.0(rw)>
> > hammerhead:/home/mark#
> >
> > Hmmm.....I must have experimented with vmware at one time on this
> > computer. No need for it now.
>
> I suppose you might have an NFS share automounted. Does
> # mount | grep nfs
> return anything?

hammerhead:/home/mark# mount | grep nfs
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
hammerhead:/home/mark#

I have no idea who rpc_pipefs on /var/lib.... is and why it is there! Any
ideas before I blow it away?


> If so you could try unmounting the filesystem with
> umount -l
>
>
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