Re: [Monotone-devel] Too many levels of symbolic links

[Ben Walton]

Does your particular linux distro not rely on a working /etc/rc.d
structure to boot?  I know there is a move away from the traditional
init systems (upstart, etc) but most of them still rely on legacy
files in some way...

If it's not clear, you're triggering an infinitely recursive loop.
/etc/rc.d points to /etc which _contains_ rc.d which points to
/etc...you get the idea.

To stay on topic, this could be handled better by monotone in terms of
error messages (although it may be in the boost libs themselves, based
on your output), but the problem lies with your setup.

Hope that helps.
-Ben

On 5/23/07, silviu mocanu <address@hidden> wrote:
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> hello,
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> i have a symlink /etc/rc.d->/etc on linux machine.
> $ file /etc/rc.d
> /etc/rc.d: symbolic link to `/etc'
> when i am trying to add recursively etc/ , i am getting this:
> ...
> mtn: skipping ignorable file
> etc/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d
> mtn: fatal: boost::filesystem::filesystem_error:
> boost::filesystem::is_directory:
> "//etc/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d/rc.d":
> Too many levels of symbolic links
> mtn: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
> mtn: please send this error message, the output of 'mtn --full-version',
> mtn: and a description of what you were doing to
> address@hidden
> mtn: wrote debugging log to //_MTN/debug
> mtn: if reporting a bug, please include this file
>
> Output of 'mtn --full-version':
> $mtn --full-version
> monotone 0.35 (base revision: f92dd754bf5c1e6eddc9c462b8d68691cfeb7f8b)
> Running on          : Linux 2.4.27-04-p4 #1 SMP Tue Jan 25 23:50:32
> EET 2005 i686
> C++ compiler        : GNU C++ version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
> C++ standard library: GNU libstdc++ version 20050304
> Boost version       : 1_32
> Changes since base revision:
> format_version "1"
>
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