Description of problem: I made /home a symbolic link to a directory under another mount point. On reboot did not have network or a hostname. Here are the journal messages (via logwatch) of what happened across several reboots while I tried to figure out the problem. (note that I tried with both NetworkManager and systemd-networkd before I realized what the problem was, my running system is using NetworkManager and as I have nfs mounts, I use NetworkManager-wait-online.service as well) NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.: 6 Time(s) NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Job NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.: 1 Time(s) NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT: 6 Time(s) NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Unit entered failed state.: 6 Time(s) systemd-hostnamed.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed: Too many levels of symbolic links: 8 Time(s) systemd-hostnamed.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.: 8 Time(s) systemd-hostnamed.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE: 8 Time(s) systemd-hostnamed.service: Unit entered failed state.: 8 Time(s) systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: Job systemd-networkd-wait-online.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.: 4 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd: Too many levels of symbolic links: 10 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.: 10 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.: 2 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE: 10 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.: 10 Time(s) systemd-networkd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.: 2 Time(s) bluetoothd also had what looks like a related problem: bluetooth.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd: Too many levels of symbolic links: 7 Time(s) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-231-11.fc25.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. rmdir /home; ln -s /ssd6/home /home (/ssd6 is /dev/sda6 on my ssd, / is /dev/sda2) 2. reboot 3. Actual results: no network, no hostname, etc Expected results: network and hostname set Additional info: I now have the two directories in /home as symbolic links to directories in /ssd6/home instead with no problems. Do I need to report this for bluetoothd separately?
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