Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756222AbYJ3BYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:24:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753466AbYJ3BYY (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:24:24 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.235]:39882 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751773AbYJ3BYX (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:24:23 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=twfdhtHg4EwfF51BRkMrSUaUy9YL/JqFWcHAOAuxHtJVulHYMjXQFKRjMYSJab7XXZ sPTxUR7kshGyfDAt9w7Wq9mRTSlycWm1lw61Pl2jDGKK8xkUWEu9OrM3pE24389sl4Vl Y1QXkvcsLsRJ8LR3UVEMkAKN1AsKHBI3Ih0zQ= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:24:22 -0400 From: "Parag Warudkar" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: Stale NFS File Handle but !NFS Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Christoph Hellwig" In-Reply-To: <20081029175643.ad0f1dca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081029175643.ad0f1dca.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1775 Lines: 45 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:58:34 -0400 > "Parag Warudkar" wrote: > >> Anyone got an idea why I am getting the below error with today's git >> while compiling the kernel? >> >> LD arch/x86/vdso/built-in.o >> scripts/Makefile.build:373: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle >> make[2]: stat: net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd: Stale NFS file handle >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd'. Stop. >> make[1]: *** [net/netfilter] Error 2 >> make: *** [net] Error 2 >> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ rm net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd >> rm: cannot remove `net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd': Stale NFS file handle >> parag@parag-desktop:~/kernel-dev/linux-2.6-wk$ sudo rm >> net/netfilter/.xt_mac.o.cmd >> >> Even trying 'sudo rm -f' on that file gives the same error. >> >> I am not using NFS at all which makes this one sound weird! >> > > Is this still happening? > > If so, I'd be looking at that new `return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)' in > d_obtain_alias(). To fix it I had to fsck.ext3 - which reported/corrected unused/deleted inode errors relating to that file. Since make -j4 was involved in this, sounds like a race some where? Since then I have booted the same machine with latest git 4-5 times and compiled a few kernels - nothing bad has happened till now. Will continue to test newer kernels since I still have few days before I load this machine with useful data. Parag -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/