swinstall warning

[Troyan Krastev]

Hi all,

After every software installation with "swinstall" I get the next message in the
swagent.log:

WARNING: Can't create core transition links since files/directories exist:
/bin -> /usr/bin

Is that a problem?

Thanks
Troyan

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

This is easily corrected. You have lost some, but not all, of the "transition" links. Transition links are for your convenience and appeared when HP-UX 10.0 redrafted the standard filesystem layouts. For instance, "/bin" is a transition link to "/usr/bin", and "/lib" a transition link to "/usr/lib". Do the following:

# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlremove
# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v

This will remove and then reestablish your transition links, eliminating the warnings from swinstall.

...JRF...