Re: rm problems remain in 5.2.0

[Andreas Schwab]

Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> writes:

> This was much worse with 5.0, but we are still seeing problems like this
> with 5.2.0:
>
> bash-2.04$ uname -a
> Linux gcboffa-lnx 2.4.2-7 #1 Mon Jul 9 18:00:50 PDT 2001 i686 unknown 
> unknown GNU/Linux
> bash-2.04$ rm -rf main/
> rm: reading directory 
> `main//VegasSW/build/gdb.lc1/isan/targetfs/lc/isan/lib': Unknown error 523

This is EBADCOOKIE, an NFS error, not something that can be fixed in user
space.  Most likely a kernel bug.  Try updating to something less than 2½
years old.

Andreas.

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