Won’t boot-too many levels of symbolic links

[rellyjelly]

So, I was messing with LFS and I needed to have /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash but it was linked to /bin/dash. So I tried to change the link, I used the terminal, but I can’t remember what exactly the command was. I restarted my computer and when I did, It wouldn’t reboot. I get a failed message saying too many levels of symbolic links. I don’t know what to do.

[TheFu]

Boot from some live-boot media and fix it.

[rellyjelly]

And how do I go about fixing this?

[rellyjelly]

Update: I got onto another Linux os from a different hardrive. I mounted the other drive but when I try to chroot into it, I get this message “chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: Too many levels of symbolic links”


Now what?

[Bashing-om]

rellyjelly; Hummm -- maybe ----

Maybe we can do this with a simpler mount.

From that alternate OS let's identify the target:

sudo fdisk -lu

from here we set a mountpoint and mount the target partition and have a look at what is set for the bash path.

we can sure try

[coffeecat]

Linux from Scratch

Thread moved to Any Other OS.

[TheFu]

I suspect you deleted the real file and have symbolic links, pointing at symbolic links, pointing at symbolic links.
At some point, the symlink needs to point at a real file.

[rellyjelly]

Why did my post get moved to any other os? The problem is in ubuntu.

[rellyjelly]

How do I fix the symlink to symlink? I only have access to the other OS.

[Bashing-om]

rellyjelly; hey -

How do I fix the symlink to symlink? I only have access to the other OS.

As in my post #5, mount that target partition and have a look at what is present.

we can do that