[systemd-devel] F25: NAMESPACE spawning: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Reindl Harald]

with systemd-229-18.fc24.x86_64 no problem at all - after upgrade to F25 
"/usr/bin/vmware-networks" while this is just a phyiscal file and was 
not touched

[root at rh:~]$ rpm -q systemd
systemd-231-14.fc25.x86_64

Mar 16 16:25:23 rh systemd: vmware-vmnet.service: Failed at step 
NAMESPACE spawning /usr/bin/vmware-networks: Too many levels of symbolic 
links
Mar 16 16:25:24 rh systemd: vmware-vmnet.service: Control process 
exited, code=exited status=226
Mar 16 16:25:24 rh systemd: Failed to start VMware Virtual Machine Ethernet.
Mar 16 16:25:24 rh systemd: vmware-vmnet.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 16 16:25:24 rh systemd: vmware-vmnet.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.

[root at rh:~]$ stat /usr/bin/vmware-networks
   File: '/usr/bin/vmware-networks'
   Size: 1189920         Blocks: 2328       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 901h/2305d      Inode: 1308258     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2017-03-13 13:50:05.693010420 +0100
Modify: 2017-03-13 13:50:05.734010674 +0100
Change: 2017-03-13 13:50:05.764010860 +0100
  Birth: -

[root at rh:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/vmware-vmnet.service
[Unit]
Description=VMware Virtual Machine Ethernet
After=vmware-modules.service
Requires=vmware-modules.service
Before=network.service systemd-networkd.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmware-networks --start
ExecStartPost=-/usr/sbin/sysctl -e -w net.ipv4.conf.vmnet8.forwarding=1
ExecStartPost=-/usr/sbin/sysctl -e -w net.ipv4.conf.vmnet8.log_martians=0
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vmware-networks --stop

ReadOnlyDirectories=/usr
InaccessibleDirectories=-/boot
InaccessibleDirectories=-/home
InaccessibleDirectories=-/media
InaccessibleDirectories=-/data
InaccessibleDirectories=-/mnt
InaccessibleDirectories=-/mnt/data
InaccessibleDirectories=-/root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target