Problems configuring packages - "Stale NFS file handle"

[Mr Roboto]

I have a number of packages that have installed but cannot be configured properly. The two that currently do this are:


Setting up gnome-applets-data (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 364, in <module>
process(basedir,install_modules(py_installed))
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 145, in process
func(basedir, dir, file)
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 136, in install_modules_func
os.symlink(fullpath,destpath)
OSError: [Errno 116] Stale NFS file handle
dpkg: error processing gnome-applets-data (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

and

Setting up python-gobject (2.16.1-1ubuntu3) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 364, in <module>
process(basedir,install_modules(py_installed))
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 145, in process
func(basedir, dir, file)
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 136, in install_modules_func
os.symlink(fullpath,destpath)
OSError: [Errno 116] Stale NFS file handle
dpkg: error processing python-gobject (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1


I am not using NFS in any capacity (ie not as a client or server). I have searched and searched and I cannot work out what to do to solve this. Does anyone have any great ideas?