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

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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!

> 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.

> Dan

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