Bug 64913
| Summary: | Installer creates dangling symlinks | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Snyder <swsnyder> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-05-14 20:08:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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These are packaging errors - reassigning. Please reopen bugs against the specific packages - thanks. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: After a full install (not upgrade) of RedHat Linux v7.3, many dangling symlinks are found on the newly-installed system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. This is how I installed: a. Selected Custom installation b. In package selection, opted for Everything & pkgs selection c. Removed kernel-debug and kernel-pcmcia-cs packages from selection d. Added kernel-smp package to selection 2. Installation completed without any warnings or errors. 3. After the initial boot of the system, ran this command: symlinks -tr / | grep dangling Actual Results: I was shown this output: dangling: /usr/lib/kde3/libkcm_ktalkd.so -> libkcm_ktalkd-gcc2.96.so dangling: /usr/lib/kde3/pothumbnail.so -> pothumbnail-gcc2.96.so dangling: /usr/lib/libredhat-kernel.so -> /lib/libredhat-kernel.so dangling: /usr/share/foomatic/db/compiled -> /var/cache/foomatic/compiled dangling: /usr/share/foomatic/db/pcache -> /var/cache/foomatic/pcache dangling: /usr/share/licq/qt-gui/locale/cs.qm -> cs_CZ.qm dangling: /usr/share/licq/qt-gui/locale/ru.qm -> ru_RU.KOI8-R.qm Expected Results: No dangling symlinks should have been found. Additional info: It occurred to me that perhaps these symlinks are actually corrected by use of RedHat Linux - that is, fixed up by use of the packages that use these files. I ran the above command again after 2 days of use (both text mode & KDE desktop). The same results were seen.