[Netatalk-devel] Error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links

[C. R. O. <cr...@nc...>]

Greetings,

I have an Ubuntu system running netatalk 3.0.1 and a OS X 10.8.2 box talking to it.  Today I noticed that some directories were taking a long time to display.  Looking in syslog revealed:

Oct 12 20:17:03 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/Server.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:17:04 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/Install Xcode.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:17:04 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/Install Xcode.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:22:58 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/Install Xcode.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:22:58 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/Install Xcode.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:23:27 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/MacUpdate 2012 March Bundle/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:23:37 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/MacUpdate 2012 March Bundle/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/VMware Fusion QuickLook.qlgenerator/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:23:37 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/MacUpdate 2012 March Bundle/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:24:01 mythserver CRON[11382]: (root) CMD (if test -x /usr/sbin/apticron; then /usr/sbin/apticron --cron; else true; fi)
Oct 12 20:24:01 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/MacUpdate 2012 March Bundle/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links
Oct 12 20:24:51 mythserver afpd[11306]: ad_conv_v22ea_hf("/vault/swrepo/mac/MacUpdate 2012 March Bundle/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/CodeResources"): error creating metadata EA: Too many levels of symbolic links

Any idea how these can be fixed?


--cro