Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Roman Scherer]

Hi Felix,

thanks for your help! Running

  find /run/current-system/ -follow -printf ""

on my current system does not find anything. When inside the broken
system, find fails with the same error message.

However, running

  find /gnu/store/ -follow -printf ""
  find: File system loop detected; 
‘/gnu/store/097dmm40lhcf777acqh5i660j4i09k85-tzdata-2022a/share/zoneinfo/posix’ 
is part of the same file system loop as 
‘/gnu/store/097dmm40lhcf777acqh5i660j4i09k85-tzdata-2022a/share/zoneinfo’.

detects that the file

  /gnu/store/097dmm40lhcf777acqh5i660j4i09k85-tzdata-2022a/share/zoneinfo/posix

links to itself. Since I read I should not mess with the store, any
ideas how to get rid of that file system loop in a safe way?

I already tried re-installing it, but that had no effect.

Roman.

Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> writes:

> Hi Roman,
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 8:34 AM Roman Scherer
> <roman.scherer@burningswell.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Too many levels of symbolic links" error.
>
> I think you have circular symbolic links (or possibly just a
> poorly-placed link to a folder). [1] Unfortunately, I am not sure how
> to examine the issue unless you have basic tools like 'find'
> available.
>
> Perhaps you can run the absolute path from the store.
>
>     find /run/current-system/ -follow -printf ""
>
> Kind regards
> Felix Lechner
>
> [1] 
> https://serverfault.com/questions/265598/how-do-i-find-circular-symbolic-links/265614#265614

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