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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
Date 2021-01-19 18:10 +0100
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On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 11:15:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote:
> > > It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on.
> > 
> > What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only
> > mention partitions:
> > 
> > Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdc1: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[572]: sdc6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> Well, the key information is that the program doing the complaining
> is systemd-udevd, so the problem is in one of the places that program
> works on.  That's why I suggested looking in /etc/udev and /dev first.
> 
> If there are any internal pieces of systemd that it might be complaining
> about, then I don't know what those would be.

I think the OP is looking for a needle in a haystack. /proc and /sys
are full of perfectly correct loops of symlinks, and /dev/fd is a link
straight back into /proc. So I'd start searching at specific /dev/foo
where foo avoids fd.

I'd also check /dev/disk carefully for any partitions with duplicate
LABELs, UUIDs and suchlike. Have any changes been made in
/{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d/* ?

Cheers,
David.

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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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