On 15 Sep 2025 at 14:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:57:57 -0700 Subject: Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: [email protected] From: Samuel Sieb <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> On 9/15/25 2:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Have a script I've use for years, and had assumed it was left over > > things, but recently did a clean install on machine and it has about > > 2/3 that of a machine that has had many updates over years. > > > > /findbadlink > > > > find . -xtype l >/badlinks 2>ERR > > grep -v '/proc\|/run' </badlinks >/badlinks-clean > > > > run in / to check system. > > > > # wc -l badlinks* > > 1324 badlinks > > 696 badlinks-clean > > > > Machine with clean install of Fedora 42 has 965 and 487. > > > > Is this normal? > > Is it something just to ignore? > > Is it something that should be fixed? > > If so what would be best method? > > Only the second number has any relevance, but you'll need to see what > it's finding. > > "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 Thanks again. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > 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/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
