dangling symlinks in linux-doc package

[Laurent Bonnaud]

The linux-doc package contains many symlinks that refer to the build process and are not present on an installed system. For example:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 67 Oct 5 04:03 /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/html/audio.xml -> /build/buildd/linux-3.5.0/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/audio.xml

And there are many of them:

$ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc
    151 604 20939

This is with the latest package available in quantal:

Package: linux-doc
Version: 3.5.0-17.27

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Laurent,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

I am reopening this bug because it is now worse in quantal.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

The bug is still there in saucy and linux-doc 3.11.0-15-generic :

$ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc
    155 620 21642

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

The bug is still there in trusty:

$ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc
    156 624 21778

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

The bug is still there in utopic and getting worse:

$ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/ | grep dangling | wc
    159 636 22178

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-precise' to 'verification-done-precise'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-lucid' to 'verification-done-lucid'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-utopic' to 'verification-done-utopic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

Using the symlinks command (as suggested in comment #7), I verified the issue is solved in Lucid, Precise and Utopic:

$ symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/|grep dangling|wc
      0 0 0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-72.107

---------------
linux (3.2.0-72.107) precise; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1390048

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "iwlwifi: dvm: don't enable CTS to self"
    - LP: #1389928
  * regulatory: add NUL to alpha2
    - LP: #1389928
  * percpu: fix pcpu_alloc_pages() failure path
    - LP: #1389928
  * percpu: perform tlb flush after pcpu_map_pages() failure
    - LP: #1389928
  * percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system
    - LP: #1389928
  * cgroup: reject cgroup names with ' '
    - LP: #1389928
  * KVM: s390: Fix user triggerable bug in dead code
    - LP: #1389928
  * rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new ID
    - LP: #1389928
  * MIPS: ZBOOT: add missing <linux/string.h> include
    - LP: #1389928
  * regmap: if format_write is used, declare all registers as "unreadable"
    - LP: #1389928
  * regmap: Fix handling of volatile registers for format_write() chips
    - LP: #1389928
  * drm/i915: Remove bogus __init annotation from DMI callbacks
    - LP: #1389928
  * ahci: Add Device IDs for Intel 9 Series PCH
    - LP: #1389928
  * ata_piix: Add Device IDs for Intel 9 Series PCH
    - LP: #1389928
  * USB: ftdi_sio: add support for NOVITUS Bono E thermal printer
    - LP: #1389928
  * USB: sierra: avoid CDC class functions on "68A3" devices
    - LP: #1389928
  * USB: sierra: add 1199:68AA device ID
    - LP: #1389928
  * drm/vmwgfx: Fix a potential infinite spin waiting for fifo idle
    - LP: #1389928
  * ALSA: hda - Fix COEF setups for ALC1150 codec
    - LP: #1389928
  * xen/manage: Always freeze/thaw processes when suspend/resuming
    - LP: #1389928
  * aio: add missing smp_rmb() in read_events_ring
    - LP: #1389928
  * block: Fix dev_t minor allocation lifetime
    - LP: #1389928
  * ACPI / cpuidle: fix deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock
    - LP: #1389928
  * usb: dwc3: core: use pm_runtime_put_sync() on remove
    - LP: #1389928
  * usb: dwc3: core: fix order of PM runtime calls
    - LP: #1389928
  * ahci: add pcid for Marvel 0x9182 controller
    - LP: #1389928
  * drm/radeon: add connector quirk for fujitsu board
    - LP: #1389928
  * usb: host: xhci: fix compliance mode workaround
    - LP: #1389928
  * Input: elantech - fix detection of touchpad on ASUS s301l
    - LP: #1389928
  * USB: ftdi_sio: Add support for GE Healthcare Nemo Tracker device
    - LP: #1389928
  * uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device
    - LP: #1389928
  * perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()
    - LP: #1389928
  * Input: synaptics - add support for ForcePads
    - LP: #1389928
  * libceph: rename ceph_msg::front_max to front_alloc_len
    - LP: #1389928
  * libceph: gracefully handle large reply messages from the mon
    - LP: #1389928
  * Input: serport - add compat handling for SPIOCSTYPE ioctl
    - LP: #1389928
  * usb: hub: take hub->hdev reference when processing from eventlist
    - LP: #1389928
  * storage: Add single-LUN quirk for Jaz USB Adapter
    - LP: #1389928
  * xhci: Fix null pointer dereference if xhci initialization fails
    - LP: #1389928
  * Input: i8042 - add ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.16.0-25.33

---------------
linux (3.16.0-25.33) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1389170

  [ dann frazier ]

  * [Config] Disable CONFIG_IPMI_SI_PROBE_DEFAULTS on armhf and arm64
    - LP: #1388952

  [ Duc Dang ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) [PCIE] APM X-Gene: Remove debug messages in MSI
    interrupt handler path.
    - LP: #1382244
  * SAUCE: (no-up) PCI: X-Gene: Fix max payload size and phantom function
    configuration
    - LP: #1386261

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) PCI: Increase BAR size quirk for IBM ipr SAS
    Crocodile adapters"
    - LP: #1387813
  * [Config] CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM=n
    - LP: #1385510
  * [Debian] install usbipd
    - LP: #898003
  * [Debian] Fix linux-doc dangling symlinks
    - LP: #661306

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "macvlan: simplify the structure port"
    - LP: #1381490
  * Revert "net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support"
    - LP: #1381490
  * Revert "lzo: properly check for overruns"
    - LP: #1387813
  * Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"
    - LP: #1387813
  * ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
    - LP: #1379785
  * ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
    - LP: #1379785
  * perf: fix perf bug in fork()
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
    - LP: #1379785
  * i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
    - LP: #1379785
  * i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
    - LP: #1379785
  * ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change
    request
    - LP: #1379785
  * cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
    - LP: #1379785
  * cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
    - LP: #1379785
  * md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
    - LP: #1379785
  * drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
    - LP: #1379785
  * Fix problem recognizing symlinks
    - LP: #1379785
  * init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
    - LP: #1379785
  * ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
    - LP: #1379785
  * x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to
    pci_vga_fixup()
    - LP: #1379785
  * vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
    - LP: #1379785
  * media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
    - LP: #1379785
  * jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
    - LP: #1379785
  * Linux 3.16.5
    - LP: #1379785
 ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-68.135

---------------
linux (2.6.32-68.135) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1388869

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Debian] Fix linux-doc dangling symlinks
    - LP: #661306

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "lzo: properly check for overruns"
    - LP: #1335313
    - CVE-2014-4608
  * lzo: check for length overrun in variable length encoding.
    - LP: #1335313
    - CVE-2014-4608
  * fs: Add a missing permission check to do_umount
    - LP: #1383358
    - CVE-2014-7975
 -- Brad Figg <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:18:39 -0800

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.16.0-25.33

---------------
linux (3.16.0-25.33) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1389170

  [ dann frazier ]

  * [Config] Disable CONFIG_IPMI_SI_PROBE_DEFAULTS on armhf and arm64
    - LP: #1388952

  [ Duc Dang ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) [PCIE] APM X-Gene: Remove debug messages in MSI
    interrupt handler path.
    - LP: #1382244
  * SAUCE: (no-up) PCI: X-Gene: Fix max payload size and phantom function
    configuration
    - LP: #1386261

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) PCI: Increase BAR size quirk for IBM ipr SAS
    Crocodile adapters"
    - LP: #1387813
  * [Config] CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE_PRECLAIM=n
    - LP: #1385510
  * [Debian] install usbipd
    - LP: #898003
  * [Debian] Fix linux-doc dangling symlinks
    - LP: #661306

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "macvlan: simplify the structure port"
    - LP: #1381490
  * Revert "net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support"
    - LP: #1381490
  * Revert "lzo: properly check for overruns"
    - LP: #1387813
  * Revert "ath9k_hw: reduce ANI firstep range for older chips"
    - LP: #1387813
  * ASoC: ssm2602: do not hardcode type to SSM2602
    - LP: #1379785
  * ASoC: core: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.
    - LP: #1379785
  * perf: fix perf bug in fork()
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
    - LP: #1379785
  * i2c: qup: Fix order of runtime pm initialization
    - LP: #1379785
  * i2c: rk3x: fix 0 length write transfers
    - LP: #1379785
  * ACPI / i915: Update the condition to ignore firmware backlight change
    request
    - LP: #1379785
  * cpufreq: integrator: fix integrator_cpufreq_remove return type
    - LP: #1379785
  * cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Fix wait_event() under spinlock
    - LP: #1379785
  * md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
    - LP: #1379785
  * drm/i915: Flush the PTEs after updating them before suspend
    - LP: #1379785
  * Fix problem recognizing symlinks
    - LP: #1379785
  * init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu
    - LP: #1379785
  * ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Only complain about missing sg if all other checks succeed
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Log a warning when we cannot use uas because the hcd lacks streams
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Disable uas on ASM1051 devices
    - LP: #1379785
  * uas: Add missing le16_to_cpu calls to asm1051 / asm1053 usb-id check
    - LP: #1379785
  * x86, ia64: Move EFI_FB vga_default_device() initialization to
    pci_vga_fixup()
    - LP: #1379785
  * vgaarb: Don't default exclusively to first video device with mem+io
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm, thp: move invariant bug check out of loop in __split_huge_page_map
    - LP: #1379785
  * mm: numa: Do not mark PTEs pte_numa when splitting huge pages
    - LP: #1379785
  * media: vb2: fix VBI/poll regression
    - LP: #1379785
  * jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
    - LP: #1379785
  * Linux 3.16.5
    - LP: #1379785
 ...

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Verified by installing the package on a Trusty desktop. No output from 'symlinks -r /usr/share/doc/linux-doc/'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-86.130

---------------
linux (3.13.0-86.130) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1571718

  [ Benjamin Tissoires ]

  * SAUCE: Input: synaptics - handle spurious release of trackstick
    buttons, again
    - LP: #1553811

  [ K. Y. Srinivasan ]

  * SAUCE: (noup): Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in
    hv_need_to_signal_on_read()
    - LP: #1556264

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * [debian] BugLink: close LP: bugs only for Launchpad urls
  * [Config] updateconfigs after v3.13.11-ckt38

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Debian] Fix linux-doc dangling symlinks
    - LP: #661306

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin"
    - LP: #1562900
  * [stable-only] AIO: properly check iovec sizes
    - LP: #1562900
  * Input: aiptek - fix crash on detecting device without endpoints
    - LP: #1562900
  * wext: fix message delay/ordering
    - LP: #1562900
  * cfg80211/wext: fix message ordering
    - LP: #1562900
  * mac80211: fix use of uninitialised values in RX aggregation
    - LP: #1562900
  * libata: fix HDIO_GET_32BIT ioctl
    - LP: #1562900
  * mac80211: minstrel_ht: set default tx aggregation timeout to 0
    - LP: #1562900
  * jffs2: Fix page lock / f->sem deadlock
    - LP: #1562900
  * Fix directory hardlinks from deleted directories
    - LP: #1562900
  * iommu/amd: Fix boot warning when device 00:00.0 is not iommu covered
    - LP: #1562900
  * libata: Align ata_device's id on a cacheline
    - LP: #1562900
  * vfio: fix ioctl error handling
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: ctl: Fix ioctls for X32 ABI
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: rawmidi: Fix ioctls X32 ABI
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: timer: Fix broken compat timer user status ioctl
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: timer: Fix ioctls for X32 ABI
    - LP: #1562900
  * cifs: fix out-of-bounds access in lease parsing
    - LP: #1562900
  * CIFS: Fix SMB2+ interim response processing for read requests
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: hdspm: Fix wrong boolean ctl value accesses
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: hdspm: Fix zero-division
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: hdsp: Fix wrong boolean ctl value accesses
    - LP: #1562900
  * USB: cp210x: Add ID for Parrot NMEA GPS Flight Recorder
    - LP: #1562900
  * ASoC: wm8958: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type
    - LP: #1562900
  * ASoC: wm8994: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type
    - LP: #1562900
  * ASoC: wm_adsp: Fix enum ctl accesses in a wrong type
    - LP: #1562900
  * USB: serial: option: add support for Telit LE922 PID 0x1045
    - LP: #1562900
  * USB: serial: option: add support for Quectel UC20
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: seq: oss: Don't drain at closing a client
    - LP: #1562900
  * drm/ast: Fix incorrect register check for DRAM width
    - LP: #1562900
  * drm/radeon/pm: update current crtc info after setting the powerstate
    - LP: #1562900
  * PM / sleep / x86: Fix crash on graph trace through x86 suspend
    - LP: #1562900
  * ALSA: hda - Fix mic issues on Acer Aspire E1-472
    - LP: #1562900
  * MIPS: traps: Fix SIGFPE information leak from `do_ov' and
    `do_trap_or_bp'
    - LP: #1562900
  * ubi: Fix...