Bug#915830: busybox: cp: failed to access '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_h8da2B//usr/bin/busybox': Too many levels of symbolic links

[Chris Boot <bootc@debian.org>]

On 07/12/2018 08:43, Chris Lamb wrote:
> If it helps:
>   
>   $ ls -l /usr/bin | grep busybox     
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       654,048 2018-07-13 05:19 busybox
> 
>   $ ls -l /bin | grep busybox                        
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 2018-11-26 17:23 busybox -> /usr/bin/busybox
> 
> Any ideas? Sounds very usrmerge related...  Setting severity to
> "important" as I'm a little worried to reboot. :)

Hi Chris,

This is odd. The busybox package ships only a /bin/busybox binary, so
I'm surprised to see your symlink to /usr/bin/busybox and the binary in
there. Do you have any idea where that came from?

Cheers,
Chris

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Chris Boot
bootc@debian.org