Article 23640 of info.sun-managers: Path: matra.meer.net!news.spies.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!gateway From: bobr@cassie.SUGAR-land.wireline.slb.com (Bob Reardon) Newsgroups: info.sun-managers Subject: SUMMARY: Stale File Handles on Diskless Clients Solaris 2.5 Followup-To: junk Date: 31 May 96 12:50:11 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 32 Approved: Usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Message-ID: <199605311250.HAA03552@hdss37.houston.wireline.slb.com> Reply-To: bobr@cassie.SUGAR-land.wireline.slb.com (Bob Reardon) NNTP-Posting-Host: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Originator: daemon@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu >Problem: > "Stale file handle" messages appear in console window of client > systems for unknown reasons. > > Several diskless sparc2 clients are booted from a sparc5 > bootserver running Solaris 2.5. > The main fileserver is a Sparcserver 1000E which is still running > Solaris 2.4 and cannot be upgraded at this time. > Patch# 103226-03 was installed and the frequency of "stale > file handle" messages decreased but some still occur. > The messages seem to appear when users work with files in their > home directories, which are automounted from the Solaris2.4 > fileserver. > Diskless Solaris 2.4 clients run all the same programs and never > SOLUTION: Casper Dik said to try 103226-06. We did. It worked, so Casper has yet another rescue to is credit. Note from the problem report that we had tried 103226-03 which was the latest version we could find on Sunsolve Patch CDs. We only found 103226-06 via SunSolve ONLINE. Some of the online patches are free and some can only be accessed by paying customers. I think this one is only available to paying customers. Thanks to these folks who also responded; most reported having the same problem with no solution... Christopher L. Barnard" Per.Akesson@carmenta.se (Per Akesson) Greg Price hdss37% cat > STALE.list miesch@bns101.bng.ge.com (Ed Miesch ph2493) =====================================================================