Bug 137339

Summary:	/dev/ttSx (x=0..3): too many levels of symbolic links
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Zdenek Hurak <hurak>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	radek
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Zdenek Hurak 2006-06-20 00:30:07 UTC

/dev/ttySx (where x is 0,1,2 or 3) is a symbolic link to /dev/tts/x. But /dev/tts/x is a symbolic link to /dev/ttySx.

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As one of the consequences, I cannot irattach serial port to IrDA:
note-zhurak hurak # irattach /dev/ttyS2
Failed to open device /dev/ttyS2: Too many levels of symbolic links

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Details: Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686), 
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-20 00:48:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129270 ***