systemd fails to start a service with "failed to run 'start' task: Too many links"
Issue
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Starting of a service fails with the following message
systemd[1]: <servicename>.service failed to run 'start' task: Too many links
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and later
- systemd services
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