In the kernel $ git log -p v4.4...v4.15 -- fs/autofs4 has a bunch of fixes, but none is clearly matching the case here just by reading it.
Therefore I'll leave that evaluation to the kernel Team. @Jason I hope that you can just use HWE kernels and be happy for now since those seem to work for your case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1827286 Title: autofs - "Too many levels of symbolic links" after apt upgrade Status in autofs5 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in autofs5 source package in Xenial: Invalid Status in linux source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in autofs5 source package in Bionic: Invalid Status in linux source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS Release: 16.04 I moved to autofs this week as a workaround for Bug #1577575 failing to mount NFS entries at boot. This worked file until I ran 'apt upgrade' today. Now trying to access /vol/home mount results in the following error: root@chi:~# ls -la /vol/home/ ls: cannot access '/vol/home/': Too many levels of symbolic links root@chi:~# Oddly enough, the other two autofs entries work fine (output trimmed): root@chi:~# ls -la /vol/media total 4 ... root@chi:~# root@chi:~# ls -al /vol/temp/ total 24 ... root@chi:~# I have a scratch VM I can break tonight by performing upgrades individually and testing after each. Will provide that detail when available. Here is /var/log/apt/history.log Start-Date: 2019-05-01 17:37:00 Commandline: apt upgrade Upgrade: libdns-export162:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), libisccfg140:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), ureadahead:amd64 (0.100.0-19, 0.100.0-19.1), libldap-2.4-2:amd64 (2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.4, 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.5), libirs141:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), bind9-host:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), dnsutils:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), libisc160:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), passwd:amd64 (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.3, 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4), bind9utils:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), libisc-export160:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), liblwres141:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), login:amd64 (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.3, 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4), iproute2:amd64 (4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.4, 4.3.0-1ubuntu3.16.04.5), bind9:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), libdns162:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), unattended-upgrades:amd64 (0.90ubuntu0.10, 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.7~16.04.2), libisccc140:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), libbind9-140:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), uidmap:amd64 (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.3, 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.4), bind9-doc:amd64 (1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.12, 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.14), tzdata:amd64 (2018i-0ubuntu0.16.04, 2019a-0ubuntu0.16.04) End-Date: 2019-05-01 17:37:24 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/1827286/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
