On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:51:28 +0100 (MET) 
 Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:

 > > Are the files you're attempting to access on NFS?

 > Yes. Why ?

Hmm... you may be bitten by a bug in the NFS code, here.  How recent
is your kernel?

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