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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
