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I'm trying to clean up remnants of an application that was removed:

$ sudo grep -R "iNet Network" /Library
...
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Libraries/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Libraries/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.2.1/lib/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/3.2.1/lib/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/lib/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links
grep: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/lib/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM: Too many levels of symbolic links

It's an unrelated issue to what I am trying to do, but I'd like to clean it up. I believe libmonoboehm is an Apple framework.

From Too many levels of symbolic links, its likely that soft links point to one another.

Question: How do I clear this error?

A quick ls -l on the first directory reveals the following. It almost appears the softlink refers to itself; or its parent directory, which appears to be named the same.

$ ls -l /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  29 Aug 14  2013 /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM -> libmonoboehm-2.0.1.dylib.dSYM
$ ls -l /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  27 Aug 14  2013 /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/Home/lib/libmono-2.0.dylib.dSYM/libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM -> libmonoboehm-2.0.dylib.dSYM

Related information.

  • OS X 10.8.5 fully patched (and still defective)
  • Xcode Version 5.1.1 (5B1008)
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  • mono is an open source .net crossplatform dev framework. Already tried to un/reinstall it?
    – klanomath
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 5:32
  • @klanomath - I did not install it, so I don't really feel comfortable removing it. I'm fairly certain it belongs to Apple. It may have been pre-installed or it may have been installed as part of Xcode. (And Disk Utility did not fix it).
    – user83961
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 5:36
  • Running ls -l on some of the listed files should give you an indication about there the symlinks are pointing to, maybe you have to follow the symlink chain for some steps. If you don't need Mono.framework any longer, it might be best to just delete it though.
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 6:51
  • "I'm fairly certain it belongs to Apple" - correction: according to @klanomath, its not an Apple framework. See his answer below. (And any reliable information on where it came from would be helpful since I might break something, and I'd like to know what that something is).
    – user83961
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 18:31
  • @jww I already mentioned Xamarin in my answer. Which other cross-platform environments do you use?
    – klanomath
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 18:39

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The Mono.framework neither belongs to Apple nor is it installed as a part of Xcode. I've cross-checked that with a VM (10.8.5/Xcode 5.1.1)

Checking your profile i'd suspect it was installed with Xamarin (or another cross-platform dev environment).

IMHO your Mono installation is hosed/got corrupted. A proper install looks like this (/Library/Frameworks):

/Library/Frameworks

Your path to Mono looks like this: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/... (Please notice the double slash in the path).

So check your disk with Disk Utility first, then delete Mono.framework and the superior no name folder (or whatever it is), download the latest Mono.framework installer and reinstall Mono.

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  • "Your path to Mono looks like this: /Library//..." - yeah, that's an artifact from grepping with /Library/ rather than /Library. You get the former with autocomplete (pressing tab).
    – user83961
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 15:59
  • BTW, thank you very much for going to the trouble of a VM install. That was above and beyond. This is one of those times I would like to reward someone for their extra effort. As you can see, the community wanted nothing to do with this: Provide a means to reward users and their answers (decoupled from bounties)
    – user83961
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 16:00
  • @jww No problem it took only 3 minutes. I have a VM for every major system (Client/Server) since 10.6 and using the snapshot feature it's a 5 second thing to revert to the vanilla system.
    – klanomath
    Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 16:03

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