getproplist: no such file or directory (upgrade 3.2c -> 4.0)

From: Christophe Wolfhugel <wolf_at_pasteur.fr>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 05:21:27 +0200 (MET DST)

While upgrading from Digital Unix 3.2c to 4.0 on a 2100 server, the whole
bunch of setld launched by the upgrade script give following error message :

getproplist: no such file or directory

This seems to be indicated for each file while is checked (or installed ?).

This is the first time I see these messages, they did not appear in the
other 3.2c -> 4.0 upgrades I've done on different systems.

So I guess that somehow my the files in / and /usr lost they properties.

We are doing our backup with the Digital OEM Networker product (the backup
server is the machine generating those messages), and both / and /usr had
been restored from the Networker backups after a disk crash.

Could it be that Networker does not preserve the file properties ? The
Networker version used at that time was 3.1. If the diagnostic is correct,
does Networker 3.2A now preserve file properties or does it still have the
same problem ?

As a final note, this did note prevent the upgrade to complete correctly.

-- 
Christophe Wolfhugel  -+- SIS, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Boulot : wolf_at_pasteur.fr,  $HOME : wolf_at_schnok.fr.net
Received on Sat Jul 27 1996 - 05:50:00 NZST

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