Summary: Upgrade Problem DU3.2->4.0 ./sys Symbolic link

From: Max Hadersbeck <max_at_cis.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 10:36:58 +0100

Thank you for the replies.
The problem is, that I did an unsuccessful upgrade before this specific
upgrade which I had to interrupt. The interrupted upgrade copied
allready files for the new UNIX Version into /usr/.smdb., which are
found during the following upgrades and disturbe running upgrades.
Those files must be removed before new upgrades :
rm /.smbs./*400*
Thanks to
John Deacon <jrd_at_star.ucl.ac.uk>, UCL Starlink
Dejan Muhamedagic <muja_at_galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu>

Thanks to Tom Blinn he wrote :
What did you do to your system in the first place to cause /sys to not
be a
symbolic link to /usr/sys, as it would be on a V3.2C system?

It sounds almost like the procedure got partway and ran into trouble.
Did
you or someone else remove some part of the system's /sys (i.e.,
/usr/sys)
directory hierarchy?

In the directory /usr/.smdb. on your system you can find the system
mgmt.
database files. In the .inv files for which there is a .lk file, you
can
find the information on what files, directories, and symbolic links
should
be present on your system (since the .lk file means the subset is
loaded,
and the .inv file lists the inventory). This is the information used by
the
fverify program (see the reference page) to validate your system
software
and fix ownerships and protections for system files.

It sounds like someone has messed up your system, and you probably will
not
be able to installupdate to V4.0 (which is pointless, go directly to
V4.0A
from V3.2C, or go to V3.2G and then to V4.0A) until you fix the problems
with your system's inventory.
 Dr. Thomas P. Blinn, UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment Corporation

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o.k.

What I did ? I didn't make an upgrade, I made a full installation.

MAX
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