I had seen this was a bug supposed to be fixed in Coreutils 8.3, but I can still replicate this bug in Coreutils 8.13
In my .bashrc file, I have this alias: alias ls='ls -Lp --color=auto --group-directories-first' Symlinks appear fine when the target exist, but when the symlink becomes orphaned (such as a symlink to a removable drive), the symlink starts with 'argetm' I only get this problem when I use the '--dereference' option, and when the target does not exist when using dircolors.