[CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:10:14AM -0400, m.roth at 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.


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader