On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:21, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:21:52 -0700 Subject: Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> From: Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On 9/15/25 3:42 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2025 at 14:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > >> "find / -xdev -xtype l" might be a better option. It will exclude /run, > >> /proc, /sys, /home (if mounted separately), any external drives, etc. > > > > Thanks for quick reply. Will take a look at it. > > The badlinks-clean has lots in ./usr/lib/.build-id/ > > > > cat badlinks-clean | grep ./usr/lib/.build-id/ | wc -l > > 123 > > You definitely don't want to delete those ones. Those are part of packages. > > For example I have this: > /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> > ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so > It's dangling because I haven't installed the "heic" module for > ImageMagick that would provide that library. > Question? why wouldn't installing the heic module create the link rather than having ImageMagick create a broken link? > This command might provide some more info: > find / -xdev -xtype l -print0 | xargs -0 rpm -qf | grep "not owned" > find / -xdev -xtype l -print0 | xargs -0 rpm -qf | grep "not owned" |wc -l 178 Last of output. Have VirtualBox installed from Fedora repo, but was once having an issue, so tried there install, but same issue until next release. Then removed it Ran Boinc for many years, but recently, it kept machine running way to hot even with cpu limit to 25%. So uninstalled it. Top few lines just some extra ones. file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application- vnd.openofficeorg.extension.png is not owned by any package file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes/gnome-mime-application- vnd.oasis.opendocument.text.png is not owned by any package file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/virtualbox.svg is not owned by any package file /usr/bin/vboxsdl is not owned by any package file /usr/bin/VBoxSDL is not owned by any package file /usr/bin/vboxaudiotest is not owned by any package file /usr/bin/VBoxAudioTest is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S98boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K02boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K02boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S98boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K02boinc-client is not owned by any package file /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98boinc-client is not owned by any package So there are a large number. Noticed a few seem left over from a Package that I uninstalled. > It will list the dangling symlinks that aren't owned by any package. > But still don't delete them unless you know what they are. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
