[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

[steve <dlist@bluewin.ch>]

Hi,

I deleted some symlinks found in my home, updated the system (bullseye)
this morning, increased udev log level to debug and rebooted the system. 

grep symlinks /var/log/syslog

didn't show any mention of previous problem.

Le 19-01-2021, à 11:01:24 -0600, David Wright a écrit :

> On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 11:15:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote:
> > > > 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
> >
> > Well, the key information is that the program doing the complaining
> > is systemd-udevd, so the problem is in one of the places that program
> > works on.  That's why I suggested looking in /etc/udev and /dev first.
> >
> > If there are any internal pieces of systemd that it might be complaining
> > about, then I don't know what those would be.
>
> I think the OP is looking for a needle in a haystack. /proc and /sys
> are full of perfectly correct loops of symlinks

Good info, thanks.

> and /dev/fd is a link
> straight back into /proc. So I'd start searching at specific /dev/foo
> where foo avoids fd.
>
> I'd also check /dev/disk carefully for any partitions with duplicate
> LABELs, UUIDs and suchlike. Have any changes been made in
> /{etc,lib}/udev/rules.d/* ?

Not in my memory…

Thanks for the help, I think the problem is now solved.

Have a nice day

Steve