rm: cannot lstat `sharedir': Input/output error
Issue
Failed to remove directory which is the mount point of a cifs shared
[root@localhost /]# rm sharedir
rm: cannot lstat `sharedir': Input/output error
[root@localhost /]# ls -al
total 214
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Jun 16 16:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Jun 16 16:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 8 2010 .autofsck
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 19 2006 .automount
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 7 2009 .autorelabel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 16:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 7 2009 boot
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? sharedir
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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