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

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

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> 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

Thanks for your response!

# ls -ld /home /tmp  /var/run
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Jun 25 13:38 /home
drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 36864 Sep 10 11:40 /tmp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     5 Sep  9 19:25 /var/run -> /run/

Andreas