Bug 90802 - Upgrade from 7.3 to 9 produces a symbolic link error
Summary: Upgrade from 7.3 to 9 produces a symbolic link error
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 90805
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-13 23:53 UTC by Iain Mott
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:53:01 UTC
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Description Iain Mott 2003-05-13 23:53:18 UTC
Description of problem:

During upgrade of Redhat 7.3 to 9 (using disk images downloaded from web) an
error occurs immediately after the auto detection of the current OS. The error
reads as follows:

"The following are directories which should instead be symbolic link, which will
cause problems with the upgrade. Please return them to their original state as a
symbolic link and restart the upgrade

/usr/tmp"

To the best of my knowledge I have never tampered with this link. On my first
attempt to rectify the problem I deleted /usr/tmp - the same error occurred
during the upgrade. I then tried to re-establish the link with: ln -s /var/tmp/
/usr/tmp to create the correct link: /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp/

The same error message persists.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

consistent

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot with the installation CD
2.perform upgrade operation
3.error occurs during the step after detection of the existing OS

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-05-14 16:33:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90805 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:53:01 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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