unable to make backup link of `./boot/memtest86+.bin' before installing new version

[sam]

unable to make backup link of `./boot/memtest86+.bin' before installing new version

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thank you for taking time to fill in a bug and help in making Ubuntu better. Now, in order to help you, we would need additional information.

- Could you provide us with detailed information on what action you were trying to run when you saw this error message? Is it part of a upgrade or from a package update? If it was found during an upgrade, from which version to which version?

- What version of Ubuntu are you currently running?

[ahhhhhz (riyaazs)]

Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. This happened during the installation as well as when I attempt to update package.

[Dinesh (dinesh-mca)]

Upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. This happened during the installation as well as when I attempt to update package.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 435153, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.