Re: Question about broken link files?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 2 May 2021 at 17:12, Qiyu Yan wrote:

Subject:	Re: Question about broken link files?
From:	Qiyu Yan 
To:	Community support for Fedora users 
Date sent:	Sun, 02 May 2021 17:12:41 +0800
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> 在 2021-05-02星期日的 18:05 +1000，Michael D. Setzer II via users写道：
> > Just upgraded my notebook to sdd drive and then did dnf 
> > update to Fedora 33.
> >
> > Ran the following command in / to see what it finds.
> > find . -xtype l >/badlinks
> >
> > Summary of results of broken links by top directory 
> > /etc 15
> > /home 17
> > /proc 170
> > /root 2
> > /run 145
> > /usr 325
> > 674
> >
> > Not an awful lot, but wonder if they should be fixed or 
> > just left alone? 
> > One was projectM have a link to some fonts, but the fonts 
> > and the directory they are suppose to be in don't exist.
>
> Maybe those fonts will can be installed in another package, or moved
> due to licensing problems.
> > The there are a number K50netconsole files in /etc
>
> I did not see such file in my system.
> > /proc and /run not sure of??

Thanks assumed there was probable something more to 
those in the /proc and /run. But about half are in /usr and 
K50netconsole are in all the rc.d directories.

The projectM ones
ls -l /usr/share/projectM/fonts/*.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Feb 22 08:30
/usr/share/projectM/fonts/VeraMono.ttf -> /usr/share/fonts/TTF/VeraMono.ttf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 29 Feb 22 08:30 /usr/share/projectM/fonts/Vera.ttf -> 
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf

Not only the two fonts don't exist, but neither does the 
TTF directory. Assume at some time the fonts and 
directory did exist, but a dnf whatprovides finds no 
reference.

Thanks for the quick responses, guess not worth really 
working at. Had also noticed that some links in /lib64 
have ../../lib64?? Assume that is because original files 
were in different  directories, but now directors are sym 
links to others.

I started on a 1963 IBM 1130 with 4K ram and punched 
cards and 5M disk.. So, had to be very clean on what you 
had.
> If its not causing problems, I think those dangling links should not be
> a problem.
>
> For example, podman-docker is supposed to set up a symlink:
> /run/docker.sock -> /run/podman/podman.sock
> to let programs hardcoded to talk to docker socket to communicate with
> podman daemon. While when podman is not running, the symlink becomes
> dangling.
>
> Or symlink is used for other reasons, for example systemd creates 
> /run/systemd/units/invocation:<unit name> which points to its
> invocation id.
> > /home seem to be mostly files in .wine
> >
> > Thanks..
> >
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