Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson 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
As someone else pointed out, just purging the linux-headers-2.6.12-1 and
reinstalling them should solve your problem. I did this last night since I
was having trouble compiling modules with module-assistant.
John
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