Absolute symlinks hell!!

Robin Atwood robin.atwood at attglobal.net
Wed Nov 17 19:34:45 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:40, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:04 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:44:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > > > Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's
> > > > complaining about?
> > >
> > > Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about:
> > >
> > > [root at opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp
> > > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
> > > [root at opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp
> > > total 2434
> > > drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    1024 Nov 16 18:17 .
> > > drwxr-xr-x  19 root root    1024 Jun  6 17:31 ..
> > >
> > > which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it?
> >
> > Apart from wrong permissions, what do you get if you make /usr/tmp a
> > relative link to ../var/tmp?
>
> That should be OK since that's how the filesystem gets set up by
> default.

Making the relative symlink solved the problem and the upgrade failed. It then 
failed on a cpio rename for another directory: looks I will have to work 
through them. 

Thanks everybody for the help!
Cheers...
-Robin.
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