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

[Dan Hensley]

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 22:41 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 09/05/2009 10:19 PM, Dan Hensley wrote:
> 
> > Here's mine (I recreated the original link again):
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-09-05 17:11 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
> 
> No, the link needs to be relative!  When anaconda runs, it mounts your
> root filesystem under its own.  If you have any absolute links, the will
> point to anaconda's filesystem instead of yours!

That's the way Fedora 9 created the link.

> > 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.
> 
> Its not the installer, fix your link.

Too bad the installer couldn't just say that.  The error message said
nothing about the link needing to be relative, just needing to be
symbolic.

Either way I saw in the installation instructions that you can't upgrade
from Fedora 9 directly to Fedora 11, so I'm giving up and am going to
install from scratch.

Dan



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