On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jason Holtzapple <ml@bitflip.net> wrote:
On 02/25/2011 09:32 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jason Holtzapple <ml@bitflip.net
> <mailto:ml@bitflip.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/25/2011 08:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>     > I have two disks running in a Debian machine ( Linux version
>     > 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (dannf@debian.org
>     <mailto:dannf@debian.org>
>     > <mailto:dannf@debian.org <mailto:dannf@debian.org>>) (gcc version
>     4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease)
>     > (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009). One disk has
>     > the OS, the other disk has lots of photos and the program gallery3
>     > (http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3_begins) to display them on the
>     > web. The disk controller channel for the photo disk died, but the os
>     > kept on running. I replaced the controller card, and now both
>     drives are
>     > running. However, I am getting some stale NFS file handles on some of
>     > the images on the photo drive. I don't use NFS on this machine, or any
>     > machine on my network. However, the pictures with the stale NFS file
>     > handles do not display when I run gallery.
>     >
>     > How should I fix this problem? Delete and re-install the offending
>     > pictures? Run fsck on the photos drive? Stop taking so many
>     pictures? ;-)
>     >
>     > Thanks!
>     >
>     > Mark
>     >
>     > These are the errors:
>     >
>     > hammerhead:/home/mark# du -hs /backups
>     > du: cannot access `/backups/gallery3/var/resizes/11-01-2010/2010:11:01
>     > 08:11:50 295.JPG': Stale NFS file handle
>
>     This is strange - you shouldn't be getting these errors unless you are
>     an NFS client. Double check your /etc/fstab and /etc/exports files. If
>     that doesn't make sense post the output of these two commands to the
>     list:
>
>     # grep nfs /etc/fstab
>
>     # egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports
>
>
> hammerhead:/home/mark# grep nfs /etc/fstab
> hammerhead:/home/mark#
> hammerhead:/home/mark# egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports
> /home/mark/vmware    192.168.25.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
> <http://192.168.25.0/255.255.255.0(rw)>
> hammerhead:/home/mark#
>
> Hmmm.....I must have experimented with vmware at one time on this
> computer. No need for it now.

I suppose you might have an NFS share automounted. Does
# mount | grep nfs
return anything?
hammerhead:/home/mark# mount | grep nfs
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
hammerhead:/home/mark#

I have no idea who rpc_pipefs on /var/lib.... is and why it is there! Any ideas before I blow it away?
 
If so you could try unmounting the filesystem with
umount -l