Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:41:34 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: mkdir error message -- what does this mean? Message-ID: <CAGBxaXkvBt81CkgPotY_q34QTHodKQD76QNaB74CczcO_Qw2jw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <99acb9a4-60b2-464f-0899-9a9cb703c5e8@holgerdanske.com> References: <e293b9c3b1c168ad1eee3a65510b1aa9@nyclocal.net> <CAGBxaXnc_ornipZxX=NgoDagCjcU80vMXZ1EjZr8j-8RrcdJnw@mail.gmail.com> <Yzc44MPka/dFNEL1@harpo.local> <CAGBxaXk5Thzdtud_ej1KGd4XCUsSYm-_4QtNZJHqCMG48A%2B_Qg@mail.gmail.com> <99acb9a4-60b2-464f-0899-9a9cb703c5e8@holgerdanske.com>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 4:19 PM David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > >> 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: T= oo > >>> many links > > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:43 PM Andreas Kusalananda K=C3=A4h=C3=A4ri w= rote: > > >> 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 travers= ed > >> 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? Cut and paste error see below for full 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" > dnixon@sft:~ % echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh dnixon@sft:~ % alias sudo dnixon@sft:~ % type -t sudo sudo is /usr/local/bin/sudo -t: not found dnixon@sft:~ % which sudo /usr/local/bin/sudo dnixon@sft:~ % sudo echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh dnixon@sft:~ % sudo alias mkdir alias: mkdir: not found dnixon@sft:~ % sudo type -t mkdir mkdir is /bin/mkdir -t: not found dnixon@sft:~ % sudo which mkdir /bin/mkdir dnixon@sft:~ % mount | egrep "fsvc|clients|specMed|LIVE|master" dnixon@sft:~ % df -k Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 690629108 402119372 233259408 63% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/da2p1 16233620 672392 14262540 5% /db fdescfs 1 1 0 100% /dev/fd procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc dnixon@sft:~ % > > David > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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