On Mon, 18.08.14 21:10, Andrei Borzenkov ([email protected]) wrote:

> If [email protected] symlink is present, it is impossible to enable it:
> 
> bor@opensuse:~> ll /run/systemd/system
> итого 8
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 авг 18 21:06 [email protected] -> 
> /run/systemd/system/[email protected]
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1032 авг 18 21:06 [email protected]
> bor@opensuse:~> sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
> Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
> bor@opensuse:~> 
> 
> The problem is, unit_file_search() is called with allow_symlink=false
> when used in enable codepath, which means that every attempt to open
> will end up wither in ELOOP or ENOENT. At the end it exits with the
> last error (ENOENT in this case, but this obviously depends on in which
> directory symlink is created).
> 
> Is it really intentional? I'm actually all for disallowing such
> symlinks :) but in this case at least meaningful error message is
> required.

Happy to take a patch which fixes the error to ELOOP if we hit ELOOP at
least once!

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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