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

[Ananth Shrinivas]

Oops.. In case you are doing a terminal based install, there is no way 
to look at the dmesg output I suppose ...

Cheers,
Ananth

Ananth Shrinivas wrote:
>  > 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
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