rm -r sometimes produces errors under NFS

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

I sometimes get the following error:

courge:~/software>  \rm -r zsh-4.3.2
rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil..o': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil.export': No such file or 
directory
rm: cannot remove `zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules/zutil.so': No such file or directory
zsh: exit 1

where the directory is under NFS. This is a Linux/x86_64 machine
(Debian/testing).

And after that:

courge:~/software> ll zsh-4.3.2/Src
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 vlefevre lip 8192 2007-03-05 15:18:07 Modules/
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/Makefile
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/Makemod
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/Makemod.in
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/bltinmods.list
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/builtin.epro
[...]
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zsh
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zsh.export
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zsh.mdh
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zsh.mdhi
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zsh.mdhs
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zshpaths.h
?--------- ? ?        ?      ?                   ? zsh-4.3.2/Src/zshxmods.h
courge:~/software> ll zsh-4.3.2/Src
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 vlefevre lip 8192 2007-03-05 15:18:07 Modules/
courge:~/software> ll zsh-4.3.2/Src/Modules
total 0
courge:~/software>

This is quite strange. Is rm NFS-unsafe or is there a problem with the
NFS server?

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