Help removing a stale nfs mount point

[vickey_20]

vickey@vickey-laptop:/$ ls -l
ls: cannot access vada: Stale NFS file handle
total 84
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-06-03 14:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2009-06-03 14:24 boot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    11 2009-05-25 02:46 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 14300 2009-06-13 13:18 dev
drwxr-xr-x 136 root root 12288 2009-06-13 13:53 etc
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2009-06-08 03:11 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    32 2009-05-29 22:08 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4096 2009-06-03 14:23 lib
drwx------   2 root root 16384 2009-05-25 02:46 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2009-06-13 13:18 media
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2009-06-12 14:05 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2008-10-30 04:23 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 158 root root     0 2009-06-13 13:18 proc
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4096 2009-06-13 12:05 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-06-13 10:10 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2008-10-30 04:23 srv
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root     0 2009-06-13 13:18 sys
drwxrwxrwt  14 root root  4096 2009-06-13 13:24 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 2009-05-29 22:25 usr
d?????????   ? ?    ?        ?                ? vada
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root  4096 2008-10-30 04:42 var
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2009-06-13 10:21 vava
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    29 2009-05-29 22:08 vmlinuz -> boot-2.6.27-7-generic
vickey@vickey-laptop:/$ rm -fr vada
rm: cannot remove `vada': Stale NFS file handle
 vickey@vickey-laptop:/$ chmod 700 vada
chmod: cannot access `vada': Stale NFS file handle
vickey@vickey-laptop:/$ rm -r vada
rm: cannot remove `vada': Stale NFS file handle

I m unable to remove this stale access point 'vada' from my pc

[elija]

If that was where your nfs directory was mounted, try umount vada