On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:10:14AM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I just updated a system - as in minutes ago, and log back in after it reboots, and this is in dmesg: [ 88.202272] systemd-readahead[484]: open(/var/tmp/dracut.fP4yj1/initramfs/usr/bin/loginctl) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links [ 88.202515] systemd-readahead[484]: open(/var/tmp/dracut.fP4yj1/initramfs/usr/lib/systemd/system/dracut-emergency.service) failed: Too many levels of symbolic links Anyone know what this is - some weird bug, a garbage message?
systemd-readahead is just trying to pre-cache stuff into memory so boot time is faster. I'm not sure eaxctly what's going on here but that message is typical of having a loop in your symbolic links (which can easily happen with relative links).
I'm not quite sure what *exactly* is going on, but it looks like maybe dracut temp files didn't get cleaned up properly and that they contain such a loop. I bet you can just rm -rf /var/tmp/dracut.fP4yj1.