[FW-1] "Failed to initilaze temp_dir" errors during SmartCenter upgrade.

[Damon Cassell <dcassell@FW1-NOSPAMMITRE.ORG>]

I have a 4.1 management station living on a Solaris 2.6 box. The new R54
upgrade tools (specifically, upgrade_export) apparently do not run on
Solaris 2.6. It bails immediately on an OS version error. Apparently,
these tools were compiled on a later version of Solaris.

So what I did was build a "transition" Solaris 2.8 box, and copy
/opt/CPfw1-41 and /var/opt/CPfw1-41 from the 2.6 box to the 2.8 box.
Additionally, I copied /var/sadm/pkg/CPfw1-41 and all of the entries for
CPfw1-41 in /var/sadm/install/contents. In my estimation, this was
quicker than building a clone of the management station and then having
to upgrade the OS. The idea is to simply get an exported database
configuration. It will be imported into another Solaris 9 box already
running NG AI SmartCenter. This transition box can then be trashed.

The pre_upgrade_verifier tool works great on the 2.8 transition box. It
inspects the configuration and makes some reasonable recommendations. No
problem there.

However, when I run upgrade_export I get the following error:

[smartcenter-transition]# ./upgrade_export db_config

You are required to close all Check Point clients before the Export
operation begins.
If the export fails, stop Check Point services and run the
upgrade_export command again.
Press ENTER when ready..

 Checking the existence of necessary files...
 Copying files to temp dir...
 _get_cp_temp_dir: Failed to initilaze temp_dir.
 _get_cp_temp_dir: Failed to initilaze temp_dir.
 Failed to export. Please close all Check Point clients.
If the failure to export persists, stop all Check Point Services
and run the upgrade_export command again.

Can you please offer me some insight into how to solve this temp_dir
issue, or perhaps a better way to upgrade our 4.1 on Solaris 2.6 console
(which we cannot upgrade in place)?

Damon Cassell
MITRE Corp

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