On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM Stephen Morris <steve.morris.au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Following DNF producing message about dangling symlinks again even though I removed dangling symlinks a couple of days ago, I ran "sudo symlinks -r / | grep -i dangling" which showed dangling lock symlinks for Firefox and Thunderbird and 5 dangling symlinks for a ".build-id" folder. So to get rid of them I ran "sudo symlinks -r -d /" which showed screens and screens of messages similar to the sample ones below, hence what was it actually doing?
>
> messy: /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/krunner.svg -> ./plasma-search.svg
> messy: /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/ksmserver.svg -> ./preferences-system-login.svg
> messy: /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/plasmagik.svg -> ./preferences-desktop-plasma.svg
> messy: /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/plasmashell.svg -> ./preferences-desktop-plasma.svg
> messy: /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/preferences/32/system-lock-screen.svg -> ./preferences-desktop-user-password.svg
> absolute: /usr/share/kde4/apps/kssl/ca-bundle.crt -> /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> absolute: /usr/share/licenses/texlive-gsftopk/gpl.txt -> /usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl.txt
> absolute: /usr/share/licenses/texlive-luatex/gpl2.txt -> /usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl2.txt
> other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/current -> 5
> other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/acrordrdc/current -> 62
> other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/current -> 1535
> other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/current -> 198
> other_fs: /var/lib/snapd/snap/wine-platform-runtime/current -> 392
> o
>
> Just relative to the symlink command, the documentation for running that command as part of system upgrade post process says to run "symlinks -r /usr | grep dangling", why "/usr", why not "/"?
Let me look that up for you.
$man symlinks
SYMLINKS(1) General Commands Manual SYMLINKS(1)
NAME
symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility
SYNOPSIS
symlinks [ -cdorstv ] dirlist
DESCRIPTION
symlinks is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs,
and Linux software distributions. It scans directories for symbolic
links and lists them on stdout, often revealing flaws in the filesys‐
tem tree.
Each link is output with a classification of relative, absolute, dan‐
gling, messy, lengthy, or other_fs.
relative links are those expressed as paths relative to the directory
in which the links reside, usually independent of the mount point of
the filesystem.
absolute links are those given as an absolute path from the root di‐
rectory as indicated by a leading slash (/).
dangling links are those for which the target of the link does not
currently exist. This commonly occurs for absolute links when a
filesystem is mounted at other than its customary mount point (such
as when the normal root filesystem is mounted at /mnt after booting
from alternative media).
messy links are links which contain unnecessary slashes or dots in
the path. These are cleaned up as well when -c is specified.
lengthy links are links which use "../" more than necessary in the
path (eg. /bin/vi -> ../bin/vim) These are only detected when -s is
specified, and are only cleaned up when -c is also specified.
other_fs are those links whose target currently resides on a differ‐
ent filesystem from where symlinks was run (most useful with -r ).
...
Be careful of cleaning up messy links. If you run `symlinks -c` over
/etc/systemd, the system probably will not boot. Or that's what
happened in the past to me. I did not investigate why.
Jeff
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