[ug-bosug] Solaris express svn_54 installs halfway and hangs.

[Ananth Shrinivas]

 > The install went fine till about 20% (516 mb done and 1700 left) )and
 > the package being read was JDK 5 runtime 1.5.comething. The install hung
 > at that point. The progress was stuck there, and there was no harddisk
 > or dvdrom activity. I waited if it perhaps was intelligent to skip it
 > and move on but no such thing. I repeated and a second time and the same
 > occured.

It sounds like a decent idea for the installer to skip a package (and 
its dependencies) if there is a failure during install time. 
Unfortunately the installer doesn't do anything like that yet.

1. Are you installing on a machine where any other version of SXCR was 
previously known to install and work ?

2. What does syslog say when the package installation is stuck ?

I suspect a bad media. Type dmesg on a terminal and look at the last few 
lines.

 > Any ideas. (or secret keys to skip a particular package during install)

Theoretically yes. Kill the process doing the pkgadd and trap the exit() 
call using dtrace and fool the parent process (pfinstall/ttinstall) to 
think there was a clean exit. Unfortunately the dtrace module is not 
available during install time ;-)

Cheers,
Ananth