ma@suse.de wrote:
Ben wrote:
I installed SuSE 5.2 today and had the following errors:
warning: can't rmdir /usr/spool -- skipping symlink warning: can't rmdir /usr/tmp -- skipping symlink
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IMHO your /usr partition contains parts of some ancient linux installation where directories like /usr/spool are 'real directories' and not symlinks to other locations on your disk.
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cu, Michael Andres
You are exactly right, Michael. Today at work it struck me. I re-used some partitions from a previous install and forgot to re-format them! Yast just mounted them (like it should) and tried to work around all the old files/dirs still residing there. I felt pretty dumb when I realized what I did. I have to stop doing this stuff so late at night <g>. Thanks to Michael and the others who responded. -Ben "You can lead a horse to water...but by the time you got there you would smell like a horse and your butt would hurt." - Dogbert - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e