Running a snap gives error "Too many levels of symbolic links"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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snapd |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I'm the maintainer of the CMake snap (not yet public, but is available as Unlisted while I work through final teething issues). Today we encountered an error on CentOS 7 systems where home directories are under a symbolic link. Each user's home directory is structured as `/export/
cannot create user data directory: /export/
The same snap works fine on my CentOS 7 VM which does not have any symlinks in the home directory path, so it seems that `snapd` is not able to handle such situations. Having symlinks in the home directory path is not all that unusual in large company deployments, so this is not just a pathological case.
I forgot to mention, the snapd RPM is version 2.39.1