I did not manually do anything on /opt/sandbox, however boot/ is not there as you can see,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qtp-sandbox]# ls -hal /opt/qtp-sandbox/ total 68K drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Nov 7 14:20 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:02 backup drwxr-xr-x 89 root root 12K Nov 7 14:19 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 7 14:20 home drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:03 lib -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108 Nov 6 18:39 logfile drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:41 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:41 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:03 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 1 10:31 service drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:41 sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 7 14:19 tmp drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4.0K Nov 1 09:24 var I think I will remove it as you suggested. Crispin. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello shubes, >> >> just wanted to let you know the following message I am now geting during >> upgrade. In my my previous upgrade I answered yes when prompted to >> remove >> the sandbox. >> >> /opt/qtp-sandbox exists, and is apparently not a sandbox >> Please use a different value for SANDBOX and try again >> >> > > Does /opt/qtp-sandbox/boot/.qtp-sandbox exist? The existence of this > hidden > file is how the scripts (are supposed to) tell if /opt/qtp-sandbox is a > sandbox or not. If the file exists, then this message is a bug. If it > doesn't exist (and never did), this is a bug too. If you somehow removed > the > (apparently empty, but it's not) boot/ directory from the sandbox, that > would cause this error. > > If the rest of your sandbox is safely intact, you could > # mkdir -p /opt/qtp-sandbox/boot > # touch /opt/qtp-sandbox/boot/.qtp-sandbox > to restore the directory and file. > > The safest bet would be to > # rm -rf /opt/qtp-sandbox > and let newmodel recreate it. If you still get this message, then there's > a bug. > > BTW, I did find and fix (just now) a bug with this. If you happen to > change > the sandbox name to something other than qtp-sandbox, it would fail with > the > message you're getting. It doesn't appear that you've changed this value > though. > > Let me know what your situation is. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
