Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???
Mike Wright
mike.wright at mailinator.com
Sun Sep 6 02:06:33 UTC 2009
Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 09-09-05 19:05:48, Dan Hensley wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade my Fedora 9 system to Fedora 11 from DVD, but
>> right after I identify my partition, it gives me an error saying
>> that /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link, so please reset it to its
>> original
>> state.
>>
>> The problem is, /usr/tmp IS in its original state. It was a symbolic
>> link pointing to /var/tmp. But I changed it anyway to be a symbolic
>> link pointing to /tmp instead, and the installer is still
>> complaining.
>>
>> How do I get past this? I've Googled but have not found any
>> resolutions--only one other person with a similar question, but no
>> answer.
>
> WAG: permissions? owner?
>
> # ll -d /usr/tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2009-07-28 07:31 /usr/tmp -> ../var/tmp
shouldn't that be ../../var/tmp ?
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