<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks for the info. As I'm still a relative tin horn with Linux, What are the commands to do the symbolic linking required if /usr/tmp should be symbolically linked to /var/tmp? Thanks <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu">akonstam@trinity.edu</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20051204150607.GB5209@Moof.CS.Trinity.Edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 07:26:44PM -0600, dan wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Howdy, I was installing Audacity when I encountered a total lock-up failure. After reboot, the only thing that comes up is GNU GRUB (grub>) I tried to reinstall off of my original distro disks using the upgrade mode because I have gobs of files that I presently can not get to and I don't want to wipe the hard drive clean and start over loosing all my data. When I try to do the reinstall/upgrade I get an error message telling me that /usr/tmp is a directory and should be a symbolic link I should return it to the state of a symbolic link and restart the upgrade. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Steve Ringwald has a useful approach but I would do all this using linux rescue and in his solution he assumes that his boot partition is on its own partition. We have no evidence that is true on your system so take note of that is trying to do what he suggests. But as too your original question /usr/tmp should be symbolically linked to /var/tmp. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>