when bootstrapping criod fails to start on the bootstrap node

[RobVerduijn]

when bootstrapping okd-scos 4.15.0-0.okd-scos-2024-01-18-223523 the criod service fails to start on the bootstrap machine.

according to the logs this is because /opt/cni already exists and is not a dir

• booting the bootstrap node with rhcos 4.16.3
• the bootstrap downloads and installs centos stream coreos 416.94.202406251923-0
• reboots
  then the criod is not started with the error:

/opt/cni already exists and is not a dir

/opt/cni is a symlink to a nonexisting location

ls -als /opt/
total 4
0 drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   17 Aug 30 16:17 .
4 drwxr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Aug 30 16:20 ..
0 lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   21 Aug 30 16:17 cni -> ../../usr/lib/opt/cni

remove-ing the symlink solves the issue, criod starts and the bootstrapping of the cluster finishes propperly.