Completed an installation of the 7 dev tree last night and tonight and have had the same issue both times.

The following text is displayed on the Drupal installation complete screen.

Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/pathauto-7.x-1.0-alpha2.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/token-7.x-1.0-alpha3.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/views-7.x-3.x-dev.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/ctools-7.x-1.0-alpha1.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/admin_menu-7.x-3.x-dev.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/wysiwyg-7.x-2.x-dev.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-cache/imageapi-7.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).

[... many MANY lines removed ...]
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics/googleanalytics.install) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics/googleanalytics.js) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics/googleanalytics.module) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics/googleanalytics.test) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics/LICENSE.txt) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).
Warning: rmdir(/tmp/update-extraction/google_analytics) [function.rmdir]: Permission denied in drupal_rmdir() (line 2277 of /home/axisoffat/hamradio.axisoffat.com/includes/file.inc).

Was talking to the good folk in #drupal-support last night and they thought this might be worth raising as a bug. It seems strange that files placed there by drupal are not accessible to be deleted.

I should also note that when the site is live and running, each time cron.php is run similar warnings occur.

Cheers,
Nick

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XTCHost commented

See http://drupal.org/node/1008328

I have sorted out the problem with this by deleting the root/tmp/update-cache/ folder, as the files where found in there. I had been looking in the home/username/tmp

Interesting that it did not have this problem when installing D7 RC2

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traceelements commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 7.0-rc4

It's weird. I'm getting these same errors when trying to run cron. I just updated 7.0 rc-3 to 7.0 rc-4. Also, I installed rc-4, but the errors I'm getting are all for rc-3.

Warning: unlink(/tmp/update-extraction/drupal-7.0-rc3/LICENSE.txt) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in drupal_unlink() (line 2139 of /xxx/includes/file.inc).

Also, this error:

Warning: rmdir(/tmp/update-extraction/drupal-7.0-rc3/profiles) [function.rmdir]: Permission denied in drupal_rmdir() (line 2277 of /xxx/includes/file.inc).

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traceelements commented

I changed the file path in Configuration > File System > Temporary Directory to home/MYUSERNAME/tmp and now the errors are gone.

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droplet commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

please check permission of your tmp folders

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spacereactor commented

i check the server /tmp folder OWNER/GROUP is under root:root user, is it ok? or do i have to change it to www-data:www-data user?

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David_Rothstein commented
Component: install system » update.module
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (duplicate)

This is a duplicate of #1008328: Uniqueify update-cache and update-extraction directories to prevent "Permission denied" errors (the issue that was linked to above). Let's continue any discussion there.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Worked for me as well. Thanks for the tip!

Had all these error messages on Drupal 7.0. Anyway, happy it's finally here, and so awesome :P

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dibya commented

thanks.It worked for me.

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brandonbferrell commented

D8.3.3 Here.
I had a similar issue and couldn't rebuild my cache. I changed my temporary directory to another directory, rebuilt the cache, changed it back, and rebuilding the cache works now. Just a heads up

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Version: 7.0-rc4 » 7.x-dev
Issue tags: -function.unlink, -file permissions