I followed the first hits that I have found [1][2] to set up a similar situation.
After mounting NFS the first time I moved all in my ~ to /vol/home mount: 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder on /vol/home type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.122.118,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.122.247) autofs.master: /vol /etc/auto.nfs /etc/auto.nfs: home -fstype=nfs,rw,retry=0 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder # detach target $ sudo umount /vol/home # check autofs 1. /vol is empty 2. ll /vol/home shows the content 3. mount shows an NFS mount that seems about right Now lets remove the /home and replace it with a symlink as you did (that feels wrong btw). lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 3 10:02 home -> /vol/home/ After a reboot (now the symlink exists) I find the system like that: 1. the mount looks ok 192.168.122.247:/mnt/sharedfolder on /vol/home type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard, proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.122.118, local_lock=none,addr=192.168.122.247) 2. the symlink still is fine $ ll /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 3 10:02 /home -> /vol/home/ 3. my home dir looks fine $ ll /home/ubuntu/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 5 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 3 10:05 ./ drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 4096 May 3 09:53 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 220 Apr 4 2018 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3771 Apr 4 2018 .bashrc drwx------ 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 3 09:39 .cache/ drwx------ 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 3 09:39 .gnupg/ -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 807 Apr 4 2018 .profile drwx------ 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 3 09:38 .ssh/ -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 May 3 09:40 .sudo_as_admin_successful Summing that up, the case that you described works fine for me. Could you outline what is different in your config? And best attach all of your autofs and NFS related configuration? [1]: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Autofs/ [2]: https://vitux.com/install-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827286 Title: autofs - "Too many levels of symbolic links" after apt upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/1827286/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
