Bug 55139 – Dangling symlinks after RedHat Linux v7.2

Bug 55139 - Dangling symlinks after RedHat Linux v7.2

Summary:	Dangling symlinks after RedHat Linux v7.2

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	foomatic (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Crutcher Dunnavant
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Duplicates:	55914 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2001-10-26 00:52 EDT by Steve Snyder
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-10-26 00:52:49 EDT
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Description Steve Snyder 2001-10-26 00:52:44 EDT

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Description of problem:
A scan for dangling symlinks finds 2 of them, both from the foomatic package.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RedHat Linux v7.2, selecting the package set Everything.
2. After the initial boot of the system, run this:

    symlinks -tr / | grep dangling



Actual Results:  Two dangling symlinks were found:

dangling: /usr/share/foomatic/db/compiled -> /var/cache/foomatic/compiled
dangling: /usr/share/foomatic/db/pcache -> /var/cache/foomatic/pcache

Expected Results:  No dangling symlinks should be found.


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-10-29 14:19:34 EST

They're created when printconf is first run, iirc.b

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-08 21:19:05 EST

*** Bug 55914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-02-26 11:08:17 EST

I also have this problem.

System: RedHat 7.2.

As an extension, any symlink I (either manually of from a script) have created
since after completing the install, results in a dangling symlink.  Is it
possible there could be a problem with the ext3 drivers?

Comment 4 Steve Snyder 2002-02-26 20:57:06 EST

The problem isn't ext3-specific.  I see it on ext2 filesystems.

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