Re: Fwd: mkdir error message -- what does this mean?
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:43:44 UTC
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 02:35:14PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Dee Nixon <dnixon-fnwe@nyclocal.net> > Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 11:31 AM > Subject: mkdir error message -- what does this mean? > To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> > > > > What does the following mean? > > > dnixon@sft:/tmp % sudo mkdir > /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc > mkdir: /fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc: Too > many links > dnixon@sft:/tmp % > > -- > > > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org The error message usually says "Too many levels of symbolic links", so I'm assuming that you have translated it. It means that when creating the directory, a symbolic link was traversed that pointed back to itself, or in some other fasion created a loop. This can easily be recreated like this: $ ln -s link . $ ls -l total 1 lrwxr-xr-x 1 myself wheel 4 Sep 30 20:38 link -> link Then: $ mkdir link/hello mkdir: link/hello: Too many levels of symbolic links So, in your case, I would investigate whether any part of the target pathname "/fsvc/clients/specMed/LIVE/master/h11a9fpp-mkknhbci-2hjvbpc" is a symbolic link that points to somewhere where it shouldn't point. -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .