upgrade stopped at ownership error message



i just tried to do an upgrade and got the following messages:

----snip---
Reading changelogs... Done
Error: "/tmp/kde-klorovwp0rg" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-klorobxLJlU" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"

and now the process is hung. what should i do?

thanks,

tom arnall



SOORRYY!! finished ok. it was waiting for me to respond to some warnings shown
in a browser. forget previous mail.


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