Bug 107714

Summary:	Prelink ist not prelinking because of "dead" links
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Regin <bugs>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Stefan Jones (RETIRED) <cretin>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	blubb, eradicator
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Regin 2005-09-30 08:56:17 UTC

Prelink does nothing, stops on filesystemerror (too many paths/bad links)

-> /usr/local/lib/lib64 links to lib64
-> /lib/lib64 links to lib64
-> /usr/lib/lib64 to lib64

all these links are bad, it seems gcc-emerge created them. So prelink stops
prelinking. removing them solves the Problem...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.use profile amd64
2.use stable emerge prelink
3.prelink -afmR
4.strace prelink -afmR -> badlinks

Actual Results:  
nothing prelinked

Expected Results:  
prelinked all prelinkable

maybe gcc-3.4.4-r1 created them

Comment 1 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-08 08:47:35 UTC

qpkg -f doesn't display anything, so they are probably generated with some
script, not installed through emerge.

eradicator: do you have an idea where they come from?

Comment 2 Regin 2005-10-09 05:18:14 UTC

I had them on an one week old fresh am64-gentoo-2005.1-profile installation with
*hardened-use-flag. I switched back to -hardened before trying prelinking, maybe
the hardened-toolchain created them...

i think, it would help if prelink would do verbose output when quitting because
of filesys-errors

Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-11 10:12:15 UTC

mmm... i don't use prelink, and I don't like prelink... it's a bad idea, IMO...
so I'm sorry, but I can't really help you here... =/

Comment 4 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-12 01:13:36 UTC

Jeremy, that's not a prelink-issue per-se. I wonder why all those broken links
get installed and where they come from.

Comment 5 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-12 03:56:13 UTC

although the broken links are somewhat questionable, prelink shouldn't bother
about them IMHO, so i'd rather change prelink's handling... base-system herd,
what do you think?

Comment 6 Regin 2005-11-12 09:29:49 UTC

If prelink would display i/o errors or continues on them, it would be enough imho...

Comment 7 Stefan Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-13 21:27:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82117 ***