Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:19:32 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: mkdir error message -- what does this mean? Message-ID: <99acb9a4-60b2-464f-0899-9a9cb703c5e8@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXk5Thzdtud_ej1KGd4XCUsSYm-_4QtNZJHqCMG48A%2B_Qg@mail.gmail.com> References: <e293b9c3b1c168ad1eee3a65510b1aa9@nyclocal.net> <CAGBxaXnc_ornipZxX=NgoDagCjcU80vMXZ1EjZr8j-8RrcdJnw@mail.gmail.com> <Yzc44MPka/dFNEL1@harpo.local> <CAGBxaXk5Thzdtud_ej1KGd4XCUsSYm-_4QtNZJHqCMG48A%2B_Qg@mail.gmail.com>
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>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >>> What does the following mean? >>> >>> >>> dnixon@sft:/tmp % sudo mkdir >>> /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc >>> mkdir: /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc: Too >>> many links > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:43 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: >> The error message usually says "Too many levels of symbolic links", so >> I'm assuming that you have translated it. >> >> It means that when creating the directory, a symbolic link was traversed >> that pointed back to itself, or in some other fasion created a loop. >> >> This can easily be recreated like this: >> >> $ ln -s link . >> $ ls -l >> total 1 >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 myself wheel 4 Sep 30 20:38 link -> link >> >> Then: >> >> $ mkdir link/hello >> mkdir: link/hello: Too many levels of symbolic links >> >> So, in your case, I would investigate whether any part of the target >> pathname "/fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc" >> is a symbolic link that points to somewhere where it shouldn't point. On 9/30/22 11:51, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Did a ls -l one dir at a time, no symlinks. Why '%' in the shell prompt? Please run the following commands as user "dnixon" on host "sft" and post the entire console session -- prompts, commands entered, and output produced: % cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a % echo $SHELL % alias sudo % type -t sudo % which sudo % sudo echo $SHELL % sudo alias mkdir % sudo type -t mkdir % sudo which mkdir % mount | egrep "fsvc|clients|specMed|LIVE|master" David
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