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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Too many levels of symbolic links |
| Date | 2021-01-19 16:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <Bz0Ea-2On-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <ByVbr-821-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <ByYCl-1Cc-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <ByZyp-2aq-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Bz0uu-2K3-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:45:41PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > >>> Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > >>> Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > >> > >>Look for a symlink that points to itself, presumably in either /dev or > >>/etc/udev. If you can't find one, then look for a symlink that points > >>to an earlier point in the path to itself, creating a loop. > > > >FWIW GNU find is said to detect circular links. Try > > > > find $YOUR_SUSPECT_ROOT -follow -printf "" > > Ok, I found some circular links: > > find /usr -follow -printf "" > find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’. > > ls -l /usr/bin/X11 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 6 mai 2013 /usr/bin/X11 -> . > > > find /sys -follow -printf "" [...] Not every one of those are "bad". The X11 one is normal. Many of those in /sys and /dev, too. It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. Cheers - t
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Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 10:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-19 13:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 14:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 15:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 16:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 16:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-19 17:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-19 18:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 08:50 +0100
[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 08:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 09:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 10:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 10:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 11:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Bluewin bouncing my mails [was: Too many levels of symbolic links] tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Re: Bluewin bouncing my mails tomas@tuxteam.de - 2021-01-20 12:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:30 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-01-20 11:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-20 11:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 12:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-20 16:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-20 16:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-01-20 22:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-21 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-21 08:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 08:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-22 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-22 13:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 09:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2021-01-23 16:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 14:00 +0100
remove me from this list J B Martin <bryant@ab-domain.com> - 2021-01-22 14:10 +0100
Re: remove me from this list Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-22 18:50 +0100
Re: remove me from this list "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-23 11:00 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 09:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 03:50 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-22 08:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 20:30 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-22 21:10 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-23 15:40 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-19 17:20 +0100
Re: Too many levels of symbolic links steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2021-01-19 18:00 +0100
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