Cannot upgrade to F11: /usr/tmp is not a symbolic link???

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Sep 6 02:01:21 UTC 2009


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

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