RE: Stale NFS handle

[Christopher.Fouts]

Yep that's exactly the case! I will move the server
locally, and just back it up over the NFS disk. Thanks!

-chris

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>From: Paul Sander [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:56 AM
>To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); address@hidden
>Subject: Re: Stale NFS handle
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>I would expect to see errors like this if your CVS server has 
>mounted the repository over NFS, and the NFS server rebooted.  
>If this is indeed the case, then you must unmount the NFS 
>partition on your CVS server, then re-mount it.  (Rebooting 
>the CVS server might be easier.)  You might also consider 
>storing your repository locally on your CVS server.
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>Using cvs1.11.17 over ssh, I started getting this error after 
>the server was rebooted. What can I do to alleviate this?
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>cvs [commit aborted]: error closing lock file 
>/project_dir/,tester.cpp,: Stale NFS file handle cvs commit: 
>error closing lock file /project_dir/,tester.cpp,: Bad file descriptor
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