Bug 187870 - Upgrade rejected if /var/cache is a symlink
Summary: Upgrade rejected if /var/cache is a symlink
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-04 07:03 UTC by Joachim Backes
Modified: 2008-08-02 23:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-06-12 13:55:22 UTC
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Description Joachim Backes 2006-04-04 07:03:15 UTC 
Description of problem:
I tried to update my FC4 installation to FC5. The update fails if /var/cache or
/var/cache/yum are symlinks to a fs on another partition (I made this for disk
space reasons). If excanging this symlink by a real directory /var/cache/yum
on the boot partition, the update runs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Starting from the
fc5 install cd.

How reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. See description.
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Actual results: Update fails.


Expected results: Update is running.


Additional info: --
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2006-04-04 19:31:06 UTC 
How does the upgrade fail?  Does it give you an exception traceback?  If so,
please attach the complete dump to this bug report.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-06-12 03:09:38 UTC 
requested by Jams Antill
Comment 4 Joachim Backes 2007-06-12 04:51:52 UTC 
Having no more FC4 installations, so I can't reproduce the bug.

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