Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???
Dan Hensley
dan at dshensley.com
Sun Sep 6 02:19:52 UTC 2009
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 22:01 -0400, 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
Here's mine (I recreated the original link again):
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-09-05 17:11 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
So it seems that permissions isn't the issue. Strange thing is, I've
never messed with this link. I suspect the installer is just printing
the wrong error message.
Dan
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