Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98246
Install of RHL creates many dangling symlinks
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:22 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030530 Description of problem: I ran "symlynks -tr /" immediately after the intial boot into RHL v9. The utility reported many dangling links. Some background: My goal in installing RHL v9 was to have all of the non-GUI packages and none of the GUI packages installed. To this end I selected Everything in the package selection screen, then manually deselected all the XFree86, Gnome and KDE packages I could find. I then let the installer work out the dependency conflicts and indicated I did not want to install the packages with missing dependencies. Installation continued as usual from there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a complete install, excepting all GUI apps, as described above. 2. After the initial boot, run "symlynks -tr /" Actual Results: # symlynks -tr / | grep dangling dangling: /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer.so -> libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.2.2 dangling: /usr/lib/libSDL_net.so -> libSDL_net-1.2.so.0.0.4 dangling: /usr/lib/libSDL_image.so -> libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.1 dangling: /usr/lib/librsvg.so -> librsvg.so.1.0.2 dangling: /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so -> libgconf-2.so.4.1.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libglade-2.0.so -> libglade-2.0.so.0.0.1 dangling: /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so -> libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.200.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libgailutil.so -> libgailutil.so.17.0.0 dangling: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so -> librsvg-2.so.2.2.3 dangling: /usr/lib/libgimpprint.so -> libgimpprint.so.1.0.4 dangling: /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2.so -> libgnomeprintui-2.so.0.0.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libgnomeprintui-2-2.so -> libgnomeprintui-2-2.so.0.0.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libmrproject.so -> libmrproject.so.0.0.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libwnck-1.so -> libwnck-1.so.4.5.0 dangling: /usr/lib/libao.so -> libao.so.2.1.1 Expected Results: After an install of RHL there should be no dangling symlinks on the system. Additional info:
This shouldn't be a problem with the new installer code (outside of packaging problems where a -devel package has a missing dependency, but the installer can't do much about that).