Oracle Error ORA-44902: Too many steps in resolving symbolic link “string”

Oracle Error Message

ORA-44902: Too many steps in resolving symbolic link “string”

Reason for the Error

This error is raised when the system is unable to fully resolve a path with symbolic links within a reasonable number of steps. It could be due to cycles in definitions of symbolic links or very long chains of symbolic links to symbolic links.

Solution

Remove any cycles in symbolic link definitions. If there are no cycles, reduce the length of chains of symbolic links to symbolic links.