Your message dated Wed, 08 May 2019 19:38:57 -0400 with message-id <242a34b7-39e4-47d9-aa20-a8de022b3...@www.fastmail.com> and subject line Re: Bug#915830: busybox: cp: failed to access '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_h8da2B//usr/bin/busybox': Too many levels of symbolic links has caused the Debian Bug report #915830, regarding busybox: cp: failed to access '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_h8da2B//usr/bin/busybox': Too many levels of symbolic links to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: busybox Version: 1:1.27.2-3 Severity: important Hi, Since a few days ago I am getting: $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all -v Available versions: 4.18.0-2-amd64 Execute: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u -k "4.18.0-2-amd64" -b /boot -v Keeping /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64.dpkg-bak update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64 Copying module directory kernel/drivers/usb/host (excluding hwa-hc.ko sl811_cs.ko sl811-hcd.ko u132-hcd.ko whci-hcd.ko) Adding module /lib/modules/4.18.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/common/usb-common.ko Adding module /lib/modules/4.18.0-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko […] Calling hook udev Adding binary /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd Adding library-link /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkmod.so.2 Adding library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkmod.so.2.3.3 Adding library-link /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libacl.so.1 Adding library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libacl.so.1.1.0 Adding library-link /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libattr.so.1 Adding library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libattr.so.1.1.0 Adding binary /bin/udevadm Adding binary /lib/udev/ata_id Adding binary /lib/udev/scsi_id Adding binary /sbin/blkid Calling hook zz-busybox Adding binary-link /bin/busybox Adding binary /usr/bin/busybox cp: failed to access '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_mSMoqa//usr/bin/busybox': Too many levels of symbolic links E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/zz-busybox failed with return 1. Removing /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64.dpkg-bak update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.18.0-2-amd64 with 1. Adding a few debugging statements shows that: /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_mSMoqa/usr/bin/busybox -> busybox If it helps: $ ls -l /usr/bin | grep busybox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 654,048 2018-07-13 05:19 busybox $ ls -l /bin | grep busybox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2018-11-26 17:23 busybox -> /usr/bin/busybox Any ideas? Sounds very usrmerge related... Setting severity to "important" as I'm a little worried to reboot. :) Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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--- Begin Message ---Ben Hutchings wrote: > This is a bug in initramfs-tools. The copy_file function applies two > transformations to the target filename: > […] > But this is a very different problem from the one Chris Lamb reported. Thanks, Ben. Somewhat unrelated, but I'll go ahead and close this as I referenced in: https://bugs.debian.org/915830#44 Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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