One virtual machine runnning on Xen host experienced 'Stale NFS file handle' problems and I can't explain it while there is no NFS mount present.
The problem occurs when listing the content on a specific directory:
$ ls -la
ls: cannot access xxx: Stale NFS file handle
The following command returns nothing:
mount -t nfs
Other info:
# cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.3
# uname -a
Linux abc 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 21:39:38 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Best Answer
With no-NFS problem seems filesystem integrity. Try to check filesystem. It worked for me.