<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Andreas Kloeckner <<a href="mailto:inform@tiker.net">inform@tiker.net</a>> writes:<br>
> Michael Biebl <<a href="mailto:biebl@debian.org">biebl@debian.org</a>> writes:<br>><br>>> [ Unknown signature status ]<br>>> Am 10.09.2016 um 02:27 schrieb Andreas Kloeckner:<br>>>> Package: systemd<br>>>> Version: 231-4<br>>>> Severity: normal<br>>>><br> >>> Dear Maintainer,<br>>>><br> >>> on my system, the following happens (from journalctl -e) on trying to start the<br>>>> services in the subject.<br>>>><br> >>> --------------------------------------<br>>>> 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<br>>><br>>> Is /home or /tmp a symbolic link?<br>>> How exactly does the /var/run symlink look like<br>>><br>>> Please post the output of<br>>> # ls -ld /home /tmp /var/run<br>><br>> Thanks for your response!<br>><br>> # ls -ld /home /tmp /var/run<br>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 25 13:38 /home<br>> drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 36864 Sep 10 11:40 /tmp<br>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 9 19:25 /var/run -> /run/<br>
So, it turns out that my /root directory was a symlink. And that's what<br>was causing all this grief. Fixed now, thanks for your help.<br>
Andreas</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've also been bitten by this bug, in my case /home was a symlink.</div><div><br></div><div>Upstream reports the bug as closed[1] few weeks ago, but it seems to be still present in latest Debian package (231-10). Can anyone confirm that this patch is included in that version, or will it be included in a future one?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/567">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/567</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Antonio Trueba<br><a href="mailto:atgayol@gmail.com" target="_blank">atgayol@gmail.com</a></div>
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