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# Quick Tip: How to Fix Stale file handle & RPC: Program not registered between A FreeBSD 14 Server and Linux Client
- URL: https://blog.maxg.io/how-to-fix-stale-random/
- Published: 2024-11-13T07:44:46.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-13T07:44:46.000Z
- Author: MTG
- Tags: #Import 2026-07-28 09:30

Sometimes, for reasons still a mystery to me, I get an "Stale file handle" error when trying connect to my FreeBSD 14 fileserver's NFS server. Despite much internet sleuthing & LLM queries, I was not able to solve this until literally just now:

```bash
service mountd stop && service rpcbind restart
t && service nfsd restart                             
```

The order matters! I had found several recommendations to restart mountd, or nfsd, or rpcbind, or some combo of those, but you need to stop your old instance of mountd before restarting rpcbind & nfsd (which starts mountd). 

So if this happens to you, hopefully this incantation will help!