File type conflicts when upgrading to 5.1B from 5.1A of Tru64 Unix

[aladar]

In analysis phase of update
installation file type conflict
appears which causes the exit
from the installation.
The problem is with /usr/sys/streamsm
which must be a directory.
It is defined as symbolic link
streamsm@ -> ../usr/sys/streamsm,
and there is no file or directory
in that path.
What to do to be able to continue with
the installation, is that directory
necessary for installation, if I removed
that link, would it work, or must
such a directory exist for upgrading OS?
Thanks for advise,
A.

[Johan Brusche]

On our cluster /sys and /usr/sys look like this:

# ls -ald /sys/*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 24576 Aug 11 19:47 /sys/BINARY
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 17 Jan 14 2003 /sys/HOSTNAME -> ../usr/sys/HOSTNAME
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 12 2003 /sys/arch -> ../usr/sys/arch
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 14 Jan 12 2003 /sys/bin -> ../usr/sys/bin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 14 Jan 12 2003 /sys/bsd -> ../usr/sys/bsd
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 12 2003 /sys/conf -> ../usr/sys/conf
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 12 2003 /sys/data -> ../usr/sys/data
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 18 Jan 12 2003 /sys/include -> ../usr/sys/include
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 13 Jan 12 2003 /sys/io -> ../usr/sys/io
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 15 Jan 12 2003 /sys/kern -> ../usr/sys/kern
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 14 Jan 12 2003 /sys/net -> ../usr/sys/net
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 18 Jan 12 2003 /sys/streams -> ../usr/sys/streams
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 19 Jan 12 2003 /sys/streamsm -> ../usr/sys/streamsm
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 14 Jan 12 2003 /sys/ufs -> ../usr/sys/ufs
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root system 14 Jan 12 2003 /sys/vfs -> ../usr/sys/vfs

# ls -ald /usr/sys/*
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 24576 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/BINARY
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 16384 Jul 14 21:23 /usr/sys/HOSTNAME
drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 8192 Jul 6 11:41 /usr/sys/arch
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/bsd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/data
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jan 12 2003 /usr/sys/hardware
drwxr-xr-x 37 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/include
drwxr-xr-x 5 root system 8192 Jul 6 11:41 /usr/sys/io
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/kern
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/streams
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 6 11:41 /usr/sys/streamsm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/ufs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 8192 Jul 6 19:21 /usr/sys/vfs

Probably on your config someone accidently deleted the streamsm directory and made a mistake with the ln command when recreating it.

Since the direcory streamsm seems to be empty in most cases:

ls -al /usr/sys/streamsm
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Jul 6 11:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root system 8192 Oct 22 14:04 ..

To solve:

# cd /usr/sys
# rm streamsm
# mkdir streamsm ; chown bin:bin streamsm ; chmod 755 streamsm
# cd /sys
# ln -s ../usr/sys/streamsm

-j-
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