On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 22:46 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Tom H wrote, on 05/03/2014 15:02: > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: > >> > >> On my machine /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin is a link to > >> /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel . So maybe on your machine > >> /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin is a dangling link. > >> What is the output of > >> > >> $ ls -lF /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin > > > > The OP's installed an old version of firefox outside of the packaging > > system! > > > > I read that. But the symptom he describes could be due to a dangling link.
I don't think so, a soft link would show that it's a soft link, it doesn't matter, if it's broken or ok. So we are talking about a hard link? $ echo "12345678" > test.txt $ ln test.txt hello_world $ ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 hello_world -rw-r--r-- 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 test.txt $ rm test.txt $ ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9 May 3 23:02 hello_world $ cat hello_world 12345678 Nothing gets lost. Soft links, broken and ok. $ touch c $ ln -s c a $ ln -s b d $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1 May 3 23:05 a -> c -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 0 May 3 23:05 c lrwxrwxrwx 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1 May 3 23:05 d -> b Now the output of the OP: $ ls -alh /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/ total 20M drwxr-xr-x 13 root staff 4.0K May 1 18:30 . drwxrwsr-x 9 root staff 4.0K May 1 18:04 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2.1K Mar 6 2012 application.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 Mar 6 2012 .autoreg -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 5.1K Mar 6 2012 blocklist.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 232 Mar 6 2012 browserconfig.properties drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 chrome drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 components -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 51K Mar 6 2012 crashreporter -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 3.8K Mar 6 2012 crashreporter.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 583 Mar 6 2012 crashreporter-override.ini drwxr-xr-x 5 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 defaults -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 136 Mar 6 2012 dependentlibs.list drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 dictionaries drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 extensions -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 3.9K Mar 6 2012 firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 44K Mar 6 2012 firefox-bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 greprefs drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 icons -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libfreebl3.chk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 326K Mar 6 2012 libfreebl3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1.1M Mar 6 2012 libmozjs.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 201K Mar 6 2012 libnspr4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 853K Mar 6 2012 libnss3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 390K Mar 6 2012 libnssckbi.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libnssdbm3.chk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 121K Mar 6 2012 libnssdbm3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 81K Mar 6 2012 libnssutil3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 14K Mar 6 2012 libplc4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 8.8K Mar 6 2012 libplds4.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 123K Mar 6 2012 libsmime3.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 478 Mar 6 2012 libsoftokn3.chk -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 194K Mar 6 2012 libsoftokn3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 501K Mar 6 2012 libsqlite3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 169K Mar 6 2012 libssl3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 12K Mar 6 2012 libxpcom.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 16M Mar 6 2012 libxul.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 31K Mar 6 2012 LICENSE drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 modules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 11K Mar 6 2012 mozilla-xremote-client -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 137 Mar 6 2012 platform.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 3.7K Mar 6 2012 plugin-container drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 plugins -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 177 Mar 6 2012 README.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16K Mar 6 2012 removed-files drwxr-xr-x 6 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 res -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 9.8K Mar 6 2012 run-mozilla.sh drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 4.0K Mar 6 2012 searchplugins -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 825 Mar 6 2012 Throbber-small.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 6 Mar 6 2012 update.locale -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 71K Mar 6 2012 updater -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 143 Mar 6 2012 updater.ini What makes you think, that there might be a broken link? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1399151460.4309.25.camel@archlinux
