If my suspicion is right, and I have just hit this, then this has nothing to do with "reentrancy" (I know what you mean, of course!) Rather, it is simply a strange/interesting failure to follow symlinks to a destination which needs to be automounted.
The interesting part is that it seems to be somehow stateful - if I retry the exact same operation again, it succeeds. -- Ian Zimmerman <i...@buug.org> gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org