rm (4.5.8) -r does not work on nfs mounted file systems

[Philipp, Axel , Dr.]

I ran into problems with rm -r on nfs mounted file systems:

F1/cpl0298_home> mkdir test
F1/cpl0298_home> mkdir test/test1
F1/cpl0298_home> cp test1/testfile test 
F1/cpl0298_home> cp test1/testfile test/test1
F1/cpl0298_home> rm -R -f test                
rm: reading directory `test/test1': Unknown error 525
rm: reading directory `test': Unknown error 525
 only the 2 files but not the directories are deleted (-r shows same
behaviour)
F1/cpl0298_home> /bin/rm --version
rm (coreutils) 4.5.8
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

On local file systems this version does work

F1/cpl0298_home> ./rm --version
rm (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

the old version does work on NFS mounted file systems as well

The system is SuSE 8.2 with glibc 2.3.2, version 4.1 of rm has been copied
from SuSE 8.0 (glibc 2.2.5) and runs with glibc 2.3.2.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards

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