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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links



On Vi, 22 ian 21, 08:08:57, steve wrote:
> Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> 
> > On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote:
> > > I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see
> > > 
> > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing symlink '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-2.0-part6' to '../../sdc6'
> > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing symlink '/dev/disk/by-partuuid/7acd2c90-b372-4bfb-a517-e14d2a17e342' to '../../sdc6'
> > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing symlink '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-2-part6' to '../../sdc6'
> > > 
> > > And the same for other partitions which are all part of a Raid1 array.
> > > Other partitions are not impacted. So I guess this is related.
> > 
> > Could you inspect the /dev directory from a live image or similar (i.e.
> > with the affected system not running)?
> 
> Yes I can do that. What should I look for?
 
I'm guessing it should be empty ;)

At least in buster /dev is a 'devtmpfs' mounted over /dev (is this the 
same for you?).
 
> > Do you have any custom udev rules or any other custom scripts, services,
> > etc. plugged into the early startup?
> 
> Don't know:
> 
> tree /etc/udev
> /etc/udev
> ├── hwdb.d
> ├── rules.d
> │   ├── 51-android.rules
> │   ├── 55-Argyll.rules
> │   ├── 69-libmtp.rules
> │   ├── 70-persistent-cd.rules
> │   └── 70-persistent-net.rules.old
> └── udev.conf

Maybe the output of 'udevadm test /sys/block/sdc/sdc6' can provide some 
interesting information, as well as 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-*', otherwise 
I'm out of ideas.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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