Bug 83779

Summary:	Nautilus makes stale NFS folders on VFAT partition
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Scott Otterson <scotto>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	eddie.kuns, mitr, srevivo
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Description Scott Otterson 2003-02-08 11:38:49 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a local VFAT partition mounted to /sdat.  If, in nautilus, I'm in the folder:

  /sdat/pix/030208_miscTokyo

and if I make a new folder underneath with file->new folder called "tmp", then I
will see the folder in nautilus.  Then if I go to a terminal and type:

cp .bashrc /sdat/pix/030208_miscTokyo/tmp

I get the message:

cp: cannot create regular file `/sdat/pix/030208_miscTokyo/tmp/.bashrc': Stale
NFS file handle

However, I don't have this problem if I make the directory with:

  mkdir /sdat/pix/030208_miscTokyo/tmp

Also, nautilus does a folder making problem if I make a folder in my ext3 partition.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.06

How reproducible:

Every Time.

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2003-02-10 12:24:25 UTC

Totally crazy. There shouldn't be any NFS involved here at all.

Comment 2 Edward Kuns 2003-04-01 02:37:04 UTC

I have also seen this problem under Red Hat 8.0.  I have a dual-boot laptop with
a FAT32 partition shared by Win2k and RH8.0.  With the kernel installed
originally with RH8, I never saw this problem once no matter how much I did. 
After running up2date I began to see this exact problem.  It's very strange.  I
have not tried different update kernels for 8.0 to see where the problem began.
 I have not looked at any source code to see what might be going on.  But this
is a very real bug.

Actually, it's possible that this isn't the kernel.  I ran up2date on the laptop
for the first time roughly a week ago.  With original 8.0 packages I did not see
this.  After running up2date and updating EVERYTHING it suggested, I now see
this problem.

This problem and Bugzilla entry 79842 are most likely one and the same.

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2003-04-01 12:30:54 UTC

Yeah. They look like the same. And it's highly likely that this is a kernel
issue (since the other bug reproduced with shell commands), so i'm marking this
as a duplicate.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79842 ***

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:39 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.