Migration fails on RPM installation with "Failed to copy" and : java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException due to Symbolic link

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Issue

  • Migration fails
  • Output shows error like:

    Migration failed: org.jboss.migration.core.ServerMigrationFailureException: Failed to copy /opt/jboss/jboss-eap-6.4/domain/configuration/domain.xml to /opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly/domain/configuration/domain.xml
    
  • Exception has cause:

    Caused by: java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException: /opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly/domain/configuration
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:88) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:384) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:727) [rt.jar:1.8.0_252]
      at org.jboss.migration.core.MigrationFiles.copy(MigrationFiles.java:67) [jboss-server-migration-core.jar:1.3.1.Final-redhat-00009]
      ... 32 more
    

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 7
  • Migrating from JBoss EAP 6.4 or earlier version of 7
  • Using RPM Package Manager (RPM) installation or "configuration" directory is a symbolic link

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