Comment 5 for bug 1804847

In it's current version (systemd-229-4ubuntu21.9) it seems to be made worse.

Files in /var/run/ will get `Too many levels of symbolic links` files in /run/ will still get `fchownat() of /run/... failed: Invalid argument`

root@sandres-test-systemd:/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d# SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-tmpfiles --create zabbix-agent.conf
Reading config file "zabbix-agent.conf".
Running create action for entry d /var/run/zabbix
Failed to validate path /var/run/zabbix: Too many levels of symbolic links
root@sandres-test-systemd:/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d# cat zabbix-agent.conf
d /var/run/zabbix 0755 zabbix zabbix - -
root@sandres-test-systemd:/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d# SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-tmpfiles --create zabbix-agent2.conf
Reading config file "zabbix-agent2.conf".
Running create action for entry d /run/zabbix
Found existing directory "/run/zabbix".
"/run/zabbix" has right mode 40755
chown "/run/zabbix" to 108.115
fchownat() of /run/zabbix failed: Invalid argument
root@sandres-test-systemd:/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d# cat zabbix-agent2.conf
d /run/zabbix 0755 zabbix zabbix - -
root@sandres-test-systemd:/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d#