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Subject: Re: Upgrade2.0.app -- Woes
Keywords: Upgrade2.0
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Date: 6 Mar 91 04:04:07 GMT
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rajkumar@plains.NoDak.edu (A. Joseph Rajkumar) writes:

>    Like everybody else we got the 2.0 upgrade and the 68040 card.
> Now going by the manual we did the software upgrade (first) using the
> Upgrade2.0.app. Everything goes fine till the status like appears
> like this
> 
> Status:-
>     copying files from /bin
> 
> At this point in time there is an error message like so:-
>    Tcl error:
>        Unmatched quote '=>"'.
> Two boxes appear saying "more info" and "OK".

Joseph -

This bug in Upgrade2.0 surfaces when /bin/test on the system you are upgrading  
has been altered or touched.  To support the Bourne shell, /bin/[ is a link to  
/bin/test: when Upgrade2.0 sees that /bin/[ has been modified, it tries to  
bring up an attention panel to ask you if the file should be preserved or  
overwritten.  Unfortunately, it becomes confused by the metacharacter in the  
file's name and an error ensues.

To fix the problem, start up Terminal _without_ quitting Upgrade2.0.  Su to  
root and type "rm '/UPGRADE2.0/bin/['" (enter only the inner quotes).  Return  
to Upgrade2.0, Quit, and restart it.  It should be able to pick up the upgrade  
procedure from the point at which the problem occurred.

Garth
(Garth_Snyder@NeXT.com)