From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: After mounting our local Novell 5.1 server and cd'ing to /mnt/servname and do an ls, I get ls: .: Stale NFS file handle If I cd to a specific directory (cd /mnt/servname/data/users), ls will work fine. I used the ncpmount command this way: ncpmount /mnt/juno/ -S Juno -U bstancil.users.oit.university -A juno.oit.duke.edu -u bstan2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ncpmount /mnt/juno/ -S juno -U bstancil.users.oit.university -A juno.oit.duke.edu -u bstan2 2. 3. Actual Results: Stale NFS file Handle after trying ls at /mnt/juno Expected Results: a successful directory listing Additional info:
I have a customer with the same problem. Accessing a mounted ncpfs directory with 'ls' results in "ls: .: Stale NFS file handle" Configuration: Redhat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-5smp ncpfs 2.2.0.18-6 and ncpfs-2.2.0.18-11.i386.rpm
Hmmm... me to. I have the same problem. I run Redhat 8.0 with Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 and ncpfs-2.2.0.18-11.
I had this problem on my RH 8.0 2.4.18-17.8.0 System. To solve... simply install kernel 2.4.20-rc1 You can install firt Kernel-2.4.19 and patch this to 2.4.20-rc1. 2.4.20-rc1 is still a beta kernel.. for me this kernel works fine and i can mount all my netware servers without estale. Bye
Are these problems gone with a current RHL beta? The next days, there is also a ncpfs-2.2.1-1 release in rawhide. That together with a current kernel should work fine. greetings, Florian La Roche
I have seen the same problem, on RH 7.2 with kernel 2.4.18-18.7x. I don't know if it helps, but it seems to depend on whether or not the ncpfs filesystem is built into the kernel or modularised. On my PC I have built a custom kernel based on 2.4.18-18.7x, in which I have CONFIG_NCP_FS=y. On this machine I can connect to our Netware server and do an "ls" with no difficulty. On other machines here, with the standard RedHat kernel in which CONFIG_NCP_FS appears to be set to m (going by the examples in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs), connecting to a Netware server seems ok but the "ls" command reports "Stale NFS file handle". So building ncpfs into the kernel may help.
I'd expect this to work now, at least in RHL9, and will close this bug-report. Thanks for all the feedback above, Florian La Roche