For any poor soul who wanders here, here is the best known workaround for this issue I've seen to date:
22-09-2016 15:23:18 < stgraber!~stgraber@ubuntu/member/stgraber: cmars: if you mask (systemctl mask) the systemd units related to binfmt (systemctl -a | grep binfmt) and reboot, then the problem is gone for good. This is related to systemd's use of automount and not to binfmt- misc (which just ships a bunch of binfmt hooks) FYI, I think this will disable binfmt. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555760 Title: Too many levels of symbolic links /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc Status in binfmt-support package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: At first I thought this was an LXD issue, but it turns out the issue is in systemd https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1727#issuecomment-194416558 ls -l /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc fails with error: Too many levels of symbolic links I restarted binfmt manually by running: sudo /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --disable sudo /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --enable I think using systemd to do this would have also worked: sudo service binfmt-support restart To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binfmt-support/+bug/1555760/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp