Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aleksander Adamowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > The installer uses the /mnt/tmp dir, which is the /tmp dir of the > > working system. > > > > On the working system, /tmp was not an ordinary dir, but a > > symlink to /home/temp/tmp - because some long time ago I had run > > out of space on the / filesystem where /tmp was located. I've > > symlinked a tmp dir prepared on the /home partition, where I had > > plenty of space. The system worked fine. > > However, in an environment where the original /home filesystem is > > now /mnt/home, the symlink points at void space. There's no > > /home/temp/tmp when Mdk 9.0 installer is running, there's > > /mnt/home/temp/tmp. > > Why? Because you use an absolute symlink! **Never** use absolute > symlinks, it's baaaaad. Use relative symlinks. > > Francois -> a check in the upgrade should be put at the beginning > to test if /mnt/tmp is available, and issue an error if not. > Aleksander would probably have guessed the origin of the problem > and fix it himself.
Yes, it could be better, anyway this is the first time is happens. François.
