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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Ben,

> > Any ideas? Sounds very usrmerge related...  Setting severity to
> > "important" as I'm a little worried to reboot. :)

After the aforementioned purge-and-reinstall I rebooted and everything
appears to be fine. :)

> The file copying function it uses knows how to copy symlinks along with
> their targets, but can't cope with a situation like this where the host
> filesystem has a file symlink that parallels the directory symlink in
> the skeleton initramfs.

Whilst you could indeed change this, given that my attempt at usrmerge
failed for reasons unrelated to busybox and/or initramfs generation
(#914716 in molly-guard) the problem — if there was one to begin
with! — is not here and is likely to just mask the underlying problem
anyway.

Thus, we should probably just close this bug.


Regards,

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