Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2021-01-23 09:38:52 +0100, steve wrote: > ❯ stat /dev/sdc6 > Fichier : /dev/sdc6 >Taille : 0 Blocs : 0 Blocs d'E/S : 4096 fichier > spécial de blocs > Périphérique : 5h/5dInœud : 266 Liens : 1 Type de périph. : > 8,26 > Accès : (0660/brw-rw) UID 

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
Le 22-01-2021, à 13:21:53 -0600, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 08:06:37 (+0100), steve wrote: Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : > I always archive the output of udevadm for my disks (actually > I just copy the /run/udev/data/b8\:* files). I don't understan

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
Le 22-01-2021, à 13:40:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > 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 sho

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
> 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-:00:17.0-ata-2.0-part6' to '../../sdc6' &

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > > > > Does mdadm have a > > > equivalent manner of displaying its configuration? > > Not having used it, I wondered whether mdadm could effortlessly > "brain-dump" in a similar manner to either of these methods. sudo mdadm --detail --scan will produce all the necessary in

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 08:06:37 (+0100), steve wrote: > Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : > > > I always archive the output of udevadm for my disks (actually > > I just copy the /run/udev/data/b8\:* files). > > I don't understand. I keep a log for each of my hard drives, its

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
temd-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-:00:17.0-ata-2.0-part6' to '../../sd

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
temd-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-:00:17.0-ata-2.0-part6' to '../../sd

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-21 Thread steve
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

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-21 Thread steve
Hi, Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 08:34:34 (+0100), 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

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 08:34:34 (+0100), 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-u

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
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: P

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
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-00

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 16:06:53 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. I tried that on / Not a good idea: the `-mount` will then pre

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : >>> # find /dev -follow -printf "" >>You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or >>`/dev/shm`. > I tried that on / Not a good idea: the `-mount` will then preventing it from entering `/dev` since `/dev` is usual

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. I tried that on / and got no output at all. But still have the same messages in syslog at boot time. Thanks.

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. Stefan

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 11:30:50 +0100, Erwan David a écrit : What is strange is that it is always /dev/fd/4 that is missing, even after a reboot. it is not missing : it disapears. And /dev/fd/4 is a link to a file opend by find itself, it is sufficient that find closes it and the name does not e

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:30:50AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: [...] > it is not missing : it disapears. And /dev/fd/4 is a link to a file > opend by find itself, it is sufficient that find closes it and the > name does not exist anymore. Thanks for putting this in a less roundabout way than I did

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/01/2021 à 10:49, steve a écrit : Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers. Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such

Bluewin bouncing my mails [was: Too many levels of symbolic links]

2021-01-20 Thread tomas
And oh, btw. Steve your provider, bluewin.ch is bouncing my mails. It seems it is using some "Cloudmark CSI Reputation Service" as anti-spam measure. When I go to the form in their bounce message [1], they present me with a form requesting my personal data. To me, this looks like a scam by Cloud

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 11:20:25 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : The /proc file system is pretty interesting indeed. But I don't think that is at the root of your strange problem. ... My current is to find out why my system is spitting out these 'too many symnolic links' messages and then fix it

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:15:26AM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 20-01-2021, à 10:58:54 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > # find /dev -follow -printf "" [...] > >This process in this case is the one running `find' itself. At the [...] > Ah ok, I misunderstood that. Very interesting indeed.

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 10:58:54 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >># find /dev -follow -printf "" >>find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory > >This is funny. At first I thought I could reproduce it by tricking `find' >into following a broken symlink, but with a "static" setup I couldn't. > >Stil

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:49:08AM +0100, steve wrote: > Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers. > > Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: > >>Question. What does the following mean? > >> > >># find /dev -follow -pr

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers. Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory This is funny. At fi

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: > Question. What does the following mean? > > # find /dev -follow -printf "" > find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory This is funny. At first I thought I could reproduce it by tricking `find' into following a broken symlink, but with a

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-20 08:40, steve wrote: Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory I don't know but they look to be symlinks that get created to pseudo terminals /dev/pts/0 by eg ssh, telnet. Maybe a session crashed and left

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Oups, spoke too quickly. I decreased udev log level, rebooted and the messages came back in syslog.

[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
: > > 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: F

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread David Wright
d 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 o

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
e 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 Hm. Difficult to say.

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
6: 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 man

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
11 one is normal. Many of those in > >/sys and /dev, too. > > How can I tell the difference ? > > > > >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 p

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
ines 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 b

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
7:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > >>> symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > >>> Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device > >>> symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > >> > >>Lo

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic li

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box sys

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic

Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Hi, When I boot the machine (5.10.0-1-amd64), I get: Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Jan 19 09:47

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. > Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic > links. Similar description to the following mes

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
/3/05, *Gudjon I. Gudjonsson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Hi I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic links. Similar description to the follo

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread Steven Noble
Just dealt with the same problem.  For some reason purging the header packages, deleting the archived copies, and then reinstalling them fixes the problem.  At least it did for me. StevenOn 9/3/05, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi   I have tried for some time to compile modules w

Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic links. Similar description to the following message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01965.html In the directory /usr/src/linux-headers

pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic links

2001-03-25 Thread TIMOTHY JON,VAN DER HULST
Hi Im new to debian and im trying to compile the X server :) I got a sucessful compile of "make World" after adding a few packages, but when I try to do the "make install" it dies with the error: install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbo