<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Phil Turmel via Ale" <ale@ale.org><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, July 31, 2019 8:05:00 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Is this just a bad link?<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use readlink to find out where it is pointing.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Typically a badlink will show you with ls where it is pointing, but even readlink can't read this "file". This is on an ISO image. dmesg also provides no hints and no errors. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><pre><br data-mce-bogus="1"></pre><pre><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/opt/devel/devel$ sudo umount /mnt/usb </span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/opt/devel/devel$ sudo mount -o loop ~/s.iso /mnt/iso/</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mount: /mnt/iso: WARNING: device write-protected, mounted read-only.</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/opt/devel/devel$ readlink -f /mnt/iso/applications </span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/opt/devel/devel$ strace readlink -f /mnt/iso/applications </span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">execve("/bin/readlink", ["readlink", "-f", "/mnt/iso/applications"], 0x7fffc1afcb20 /* 56 vars */) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">brk(NULL) = 0x556dd2539000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=153289, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(NULL, 153289, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fc145b68000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">close(3) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\260\34\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2030544, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fc145b66000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(NULL, 4131552, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7fc145576000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mprotect(0x7fc14575d000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(0x7fc14595d000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1e7000) = 0x7fc14595d000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(0x7fc145963000, 15072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fc145963000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">close(3) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fc145b67540) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mprotect(0x7fc14595d000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mprotect(0x556dd0ef2000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mprotect(0x7fc145b8e000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">munmap(0x7fc145b68000, 153289) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">brk(NULL) = 0x556dd2539000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">brk(0x556dd255a000) = 0x556dd255a000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10281936, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">mmap(NULL, 10281936, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fc144ba7000</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">close(3) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">lstat("/mnt", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">lstat("/mnt/iso", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=2048, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">lstat("/mnt/iso/applications", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0755, st_size=13, ...}) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: #ffff00;">readlink("/mnt/iso/applications", 0x556dd253b570, 14) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">close(1) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">close(2) = 0</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">exit_group(1) = ?</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">+++ exited with 1 +++</span><br><span style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">chris@mechonis:/opt/devel/devel$</span> <br></pre><br></div></div></body></html>