On 2021-01-22 08:08:57 +0100, steve wrote: > Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > > On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: > > > I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see > > > > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update device > > > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing > > > symlink '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-2.0-part6' to '../../sdc6' > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing > > > symlink '/dev/disk/by-partuuid/7acd2c90-b372-4bfb-a517-e14d2a17e342' to > > > '../../sdc6' > > > Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Preserve already existing > > > symlink '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-2-part6' to '../../sdc6' > > > > > > And the same for other partitions which are all part of a Raid1 array. > > > Other partitions are not impacted. So I guess this is related. > > > > Could you inspect the /dev directory from a live image or similar (i.e. > > with the affected system not running)? > > Yes I can do that. What should I look for?
As usual, the error message gives the name of the symlink: sdc6, so that should be /dev/sdc6. If it is not a symlink, I suggest that you check the ctime with /usr/bin/stat in case it has changed after the error message. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)