Re: Too many levels of symbolic links
On 2021-01-22 08:08:57 +0100, 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?
As usual, the error message gives the name of the symlink: sdc6,
so that should be /dev/sdc6. If it is not a symlink, I suggest that
you check the ctime with /usr/bin/stat in case it has changed after
the error message.
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