can't mount AFS?

[Harald Barth]

> an error message says,  "ls: .: Stale NFS file handle".

Seems that you allready have an /afs file system, but it seems to be
of type NFS. Have you mounted that from afs.msu.edu? I suppose you
unmount the NFS file system first. When reporting bugs, any error
messages from the startarla script mat help. Even other details like
OS, machine type and so forth may be helpful to the audience.

Have a nice day,
Harald.