Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u4
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Upgraded a Debian Wheezy system that uses automounted NFS home directories to
Jessie
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Most mornings when a user first logs in, the system attempts to automount
/nfs/home.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Graphical logins are returned to the greeter screen immediately; ssh logins, or
other attempts to access files under /nfs/home, report the message
Too many levels of symbolic links
* What outcome did you expect instead?
/nfs/home should be automaticaly mounted by the automounter as required.
This appears to be fundamentally similar to Debian bug #767468i, assigned to
cgmanager.
When the error occured this morning, I checked if any processes still listed
/nfs/home as mounted:
# grep /nfs/home /proc/*/mounts
/proc/25319/mounts:files:/home /nfs/home nfs4
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.8.53,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.8.249
0 0
/proc/25319/mounts:tmpfs /nfs/home tmpfs
rw,nosuid,relatime,size=407436k,mode=755 0 0
/proc/25319/mounts:tmpfs /nfs/home tmpfs ro,relatime,size=407436k,mode=755 0 0
# ps afx | grep 25319
26164 pts/2 S+ 0:00 \_ grep 25319
25319 ? Ss 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-machined
Restarting autofs resolves the issue, but that requires administrator
intervention and so is a poor solution on a shared workstation used by
unprivileged staff.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii acl 2.2.52-2
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii libacl1 2.2.52-2
ii libaudit1 1:2.4-1+b1
ii libblkid1 2.25.2-6
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libcap2 1:2.24-8
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8
ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-5
ii libgcrypt20 1.6.3-2+deb8u1
ii libkmod2 18-3
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii libselinux1 2.3-2
ii libsystemd0 215-17+deb8u4
ii mount 2.25.2-6
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-59
ii udev 215-17+deb8u4
ii util-linux 2.25.2-6
Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u4
Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn systemd-ui <none>
-- no debconf information
