Bug#837201: systemd-{timesyncd, localed, hostnamed} fail to start with "Too many levels of symbolic links"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 10.09.2016 um 02:27 schrieb Andreas Kloeckner:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 231-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> on my system, the following happens (from journalctl -e) on trying to start the
> services in the subject.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Sep 09 19:04:17 bolt systemd[2685]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed: Too many levels of symbolic links

Is /home or /tmp a symbolic link?
How exactly does the /var/run symlink look like

Please post the output of
# ls -ld /home /tmp  /var/run

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