On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:36 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 22:10:44 Anne Wilson wrote: > > Both my F10 netbook and Mandriva 2009 laptop have nfs mounts to my home > > directory and a data directory on my server. A couple of hours ago I found > > that I could not access the home directory, although the data directory is > > still fine. I was seeing messages about "stale NFS file handle". On > > googling I got the impression that the problem was at the client end, but > > it would be really strange if both clients developed a problem at the same > > time. > > > > I've really no idea where to look, to troubleshoot this. All ideas > > welcome. > > > I wonder if there is any connection with the fact that I had to reinstall > CentOS on the server yesterday, as repeated power-cuts had depleted the ups > until the system was trashed. Most things are up and running again, but there > is a problem with keychain, which I still have to resolve. The permissions on > the data directory are much looser (since it is shared with other users) so it > could be an authentication problem. I'll be looking into the keychain issue > tomorrow. > > Anne Checkout adding fsid=XXX in your NFS server's /etc/exports file to the exported directories. It helps nfs clients recover from NFS servers dropping out on them and then coming back later. You will need centos5 or newer kernel/nfs software stack for this option to help though. - Adam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
