Stale NFS file handle

  • 7019303
  • 27-Jun-2016
  • 29-Aug-2017

Environment


Reload

Situation


Reload cannot connect to the PO and the error "mount(2): Stale NFS file handle" appears in the logs.

Resolution

This can happen when the NFS client is rebooted before the NFS server with invalid file handles being left in memory.

The mounts need to be refreshed on the source (GW) server. This can be resolved by running:
exportfs -f
and/or
umount -lf

Additional Information

This article was originally published in the GWAVA knowledgebase as article ID 2817.