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cafe

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Registered: 2014-03-20

Posts: 156

Java - too many levels of symbolic links

Hi everyone,

Today I've tried to launch eclipse and I noticed this strange error :

[^81%][11:12][cafe][~]$ eclipse
/usr/bin/java: line 2: /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin/java: Too many levels of symbolic links
/usr/bin/java: line 2: exec: /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin/java: cannot execute: Too many levels of symbolic links

Inspecting the /usr/lib/jvm folder revealed the issue:

[^82%][11:14][cafe][~]$ cd /usr/lib/jvm
[^82%][11:15][cafe][jvm]$ ls -lhA
total 4.0K
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep  5 11:12 default -> default
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   11 Sep  4 16:44 default-runtime -> default/jre
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Jul  3 16:02 java-7-openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep  4 16:44 java-default-runtime -> default

So I've just removed the default symbolic link and replaced with :

[^82%][11:15][cafe][jvm]$ sudo rm default
[^84%][11:16][cafe][jvm]$ sudo ln -s java-7-openjdk/jre default
[^84%][11:17][cafe][jvm]$ ls -lhA
total 4.0K
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 Sep  5 11:17 default -> java-7-openjdk/jre
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 Sep  4 16:44 default-runtime -> default/jre
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jul  3 16:02 java-7-openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 Sep  4 16:44 java-default-runtime -> default

and now eclipse launches without any issues.

So I ask, is this the correct behavior? and..
Why do we have so many symbolic links in this folder?

Cheers,

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,546

Re: Java - too many levels of symbolic links

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