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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
Date 2021-01-19 14:50 +0100
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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 ""

(the printf is there to quench the noise). It should complain
when it detects a cycle.

Warning: untested.

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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