diff --git a/jenkins/Pipeline.gy b/jenkins/Pipeline.gy
index 60ad83d627..5b8f7bad69 100644
--- a/jenkins/Pipeline.gy
+++ b/jenkins/Pipeline.gy
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ pipeline {
     stages {
         stage('Linting & Unit Tests') {
             steps {
+                // If there is somehow a symlink left over from a previous run's
+                // Cobertura processing, remove it, because it seems to confuse
+                // the coverage data collection.
+                sh 'rm -fv pbench'
+
                 echo 'Linting, pytest-based unit tests, and legacy unit tests'
                 sh 'jenkins/run tox'
             }
@@ -25,6 +30,14 @@ pipeline {
     }
     post {
         success {
+            // This symlink somehow allows the Cobertura plug-in to find the
+            // sources referenced in the coverage report.  However, the presence
+            // of this link inside the container seems to confuse the coverage
+            // data collection, so we create it here and then remove it after
+            // generating the report. (We use the -f option just in case there's
+            // an old one hanging around.)
+            sh 'ln -sTf lib/pbench pbench'
+
             // Note that jenkins/run-pytests is executed inside the container
             // while the Cobertura plug-in is executed natively, so this poses
             // a challenge in terms of finding the coverage report file; we
@@ -41,7 +54,7 @@ pipeline {
                 onlyStable: false,
                 sourceEncoding: 'ASCII',
                 zoomCoverageChart: false])
-            sh 'rm cov/report.xml'
+            sh 'rm cov/report.xml pbench'
         }
     }
 }