Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Just curious,
is kernel-source-2.6.12-1 available somewhere ?

Thanks,
Jerome

Steven Noble wrote:
> Just dealt with the same problem.  For some reason purging the header 
> packages, deleting the archived copies, and then reinstalling them fixes 
> the problem.  At least it did for me.
>
> Steven
>
> On 9/3/05, *Gudjon I. Gudjonsson* <gudjon@mc2.chalmers.se 
> <mailto:gudjon@mc2.chalmers.se>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>        I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant.
>     Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic
>     links. Similar description to the following message.
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01965.html
>     In the directory
>     /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64-k8-smp/arch/x86_64
>     I do ls -la and get
>     lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   52 2005-08-18 10:45 Makefile ->
>     ../../../linux-headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64/Makefile
>     but in the directory
>     /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64
>     I do ls -la and get
>     lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   52 2005-08-18 10:45 Makefile ->
>     ../../../linux- headers-2.6.12-1/arch/x86_64/Makefile
>     which points to itself if I am not mistaken. Hope I am not spaming your
>     mailing list.
>
>     Sincerely
>     Gudjon