[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#476332: schroot: Fails mysteriously when /etc/schroot/schroot.conf is a symlink

[Timothy G Abbott]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.1.6-1
Severity: normal

When I try to use schroot on a system where /etc/schroot/schroot.conf is a 
symbolic link to another file (I've triple-checked that it's a regular 
file and not another symlink), I get the following strange error:

$ schroot -pc athena
E: /etc/schroot/schroot.conf: Failed to open file: Too many levels of symbolic links

There's only one symbolic link involved, and the normal limit for 
recursive symbolic links on linux is much higher than that.

 	-Tim Abbott