[arch-general] java: cannot execute - too many levels of symbolic links

[arnaud gaboury]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> after updating yesterday java does not work anymore for me:
>
> ,----
> | [tj at arch ~]$ LC_ALL=C java --help
> | /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
> `----
>
 Same issue here.

$ archlinux-java fix
seems to fix everything

gabx at hortensia ➤➤ versions/1.8-pre1 % ls -al /usr/lib/jvm
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Sep  9 09:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 228 root root 136K Sep  8 15:50 ../
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4.0K Sep 22  2013 java-7-openjdk/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 Sep  9 09:07 default -> java-7-openjdk/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 Sep  9 09:07 default-runtime ->
java-7-openjdk/jre/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep  8 15:50 java-default-runtime -> default/