What does "link to unknown" mean?

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Published on 2012-12-15T07:36:48Z Indexed on 2012/12/15 11:07 UTC
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I just upgraded my server to Fedora 17 which made a switch of my bootloader from GRUB Legacy to GRUB2. There are two symbolic links in the /etc folder that points to the files grub.conf and grub.cfg in /boot/grub and /boot/grub2 respectively. Though the targets seem correct, the link icons are displaying an X status which seems to indicate that the links are broken. Upon right-clicking the property type, it states "link to unknown". The file size of the link corresponds exactly with the file size of the target file, so, why does the links appear to be broken?

The image of the link icons:

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As requested, the following are the outputs from the commands:

$ ls -l /etc/grub.conf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Jul 14  2011 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf

$ ls -l /etc/grub2.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Dec 10 18:57 /etc/grub2.cfg -> ../boot/grub2/grub.cfg

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