swinstall warning message

[bi]

The last couple of times I have installed software with swinstall, I have received the following in the swagent.log:

WARNING: Can't create core transition links since files/directories exist:
/usr/bin/kdestroy -> /opt/dce/bin/kdestroy
/usr/bin/kinit -> /opt/dce/bin/kinit
/usr/bin/klist -> /opt/dce/bin/klist
Everything seems to be OK: the software is installed, but I don't know what the warning message means.

Does anyone know?

 

[eviltim]

"Transition links" are for backward compatibility with old HP-UX filesystem layouts, e.g. /bin is now a link to /usr/bin

# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlremove
# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v
should remove & recreate the necessary links.

Otherwise, check if /usr/bin/kdestroy is a file or if it is a link to /opt/dce/bin/kdestroy (I believe it should be a link, and if /usr/bin/kdestroy is a file it would explain the error you are getting; If should be safe to rename the file & create the link from command line)