Stale NFS file handle

Cause

A file or directory that was opened by an NFS client was either removed or replaced on the server.

Action

If you were editing this file, write it to a local file system instead. Try remounting the file system on top of itself or shutting down any client processes that refer to stale file handles. If neither of these solutions works, reboot the system.

Technical Notes

The original vnode is no longer valid. The only way to remove this error is to force the NFS server and client to renegotiate file handles.

The symbolic name for this error is ESTALE, errno=151.