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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links



On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote:
> Le 19-01-2021, à 15:53:00 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de a écrit :
> 
> >>find /usr -follow -printf ""
> >>find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’.
> >>
> >>ls -l /usr/bin/X11
> >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1  6 mai  2013 /usr/bin/X11 -> .
> >>
> >>
> >>find /sys -follow -printf ""
> >[...]
> >
> >Not every one of those are "bad". The X11 one is normal. Many of those in
> >/sys and /dev, too.
> 
> How can I tell the difference ?
> 
> >
> >It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on.
> 
> What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only
> mention partitions:
> 
> Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdc1: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[572]: sdc6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links

Hm. Difficult to say. Besides, I'm a systemd analphabet.

Are those /dev/sdXX above symlinks?

As far as I know, there is a knob to increase udev's log level
in /etc/udev/udev.conf -- it's called udev_log (see e.g. [1]).

Perhaps it's helpful.

Cheers

[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/udev.conf.5.html

 - t

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