Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

[steve <dlist@bluewin.ch>]

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?


> 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

> How is the RAID assembled?


See my other's morning mail.

Thanks for your help.

Steve