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

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 6 13:46:19 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 17:05 -0600, 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
On my machine /usr/tmp is a symbolic link to /var/tmp
so something is really wrong on your system
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