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

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On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 19:06 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> 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
> 
> shouldn't that be ../../var/tmp  ?
> 
Indeed it should..
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