Missing gawk

[paulj_j]

Hi
I noticed lines in roots mail which had:
/bin/run-parts: line 76: gawk: command not found

Now
[root@localhost ~]# which gawk
/usr/bin/which: no gawk in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/gawk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jun 30 20:49 /usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk
[root@localhost ~]# ls /usr/bin/gawk
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/gawk: Too many levels of symbolic links
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /bin/gawk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jun 30 20:49 /bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk


Anyone give me a hint as to what this is all about?
I assume there is a circular reference but why>

Cheers Paul

[dd_wizard]

Are you on F16 or F17? Did you upgrade from F16 to F17? I see that gawk was in /bin on F16, and there was a link to it from /usr/bin. Perhaps something got borked by the usrmove feature if you upgraded from F16 to F17.

dd_wizard

[paulj_j]

Yes it was a fc 16 machine I updated using cli-preupdate

Paul

[george_toolan]

No wonder:

ls: cannot access /usr/bin/gawk: Too many levels of symbolic links
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jun 30 20:49 /bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk

This link is recursive ;-)

[CronoCloud]

Fine for me on F17 that was updated from F16 with preupgrade:

[CronoCloud ~]$ which gawk
/usr/bin/gawk
[CronoCloud ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/gawk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418184 Jun  7 07:00 /usr/bin/gawk

CronoCloud