site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=A5fuJ7brez6GAucnJsSG4lOxvOTGUfVh7cYAS72Leww=; b=pl1Nxvu0r/gOiAVRG6krWRDbylgH8tRqCjnbq2Tev0Gpjq81ipZLKhyb/YarJyDmP/ qEX1KhAYrBhs2PEbQESXtcj49uBFn5pLfZwlV1vrKolhGsiioYuE1d8ue5UvlKLiF+AL 3MIPQYUQazaOGYs//WdT6o444nVB0EwCtZ42E= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=YADr9vroffMiuuYUyh3FXD2ub5414X/rsONF0zh6Ctam4c9E4hvX/+/3KNzlvxhHdE +d8OA/kFLgz15lnemAkrDGK+YvVqtXegNHErvzLeB+UJ8kzE5kwQPSyDtll8QUb5Qv9a Oes0o4/k0Tv22olFdc8mOEQEAcUG3U2i7t22c= hello again everyone, i posted the following message over on the InstaDMG list, but got no response. maybe someone here can shed some light? short summary: it seems to be an installer problem (i'm on 10.5.8). installer is failing under a chroot environment... sometimes. i'm guessing running installer chrooted is probably not 'supported', but the way in which it fails is really interesting. lastly, i apologize for it containing a lot of InstaDMG terminology -- if you can get past that, you'll see the fun installer stuff. -- i'm running into an issue where installer is crapping out when run under the chrooted environment of InstaDMG. it's failing on certain packages, and i can't figure out what's causing it to fail vs. succeed. the same packages fail each run. here's a partial transcript of the debug log: http://pastie.org/private/zip9ovjez8hbaogpq3sheq the first 600 lines show things progressing normally. then it starts failing. (note that i passed -t /Volumes/data2/tmp as the PACKAGE_DMG_MOUNT_LOCATION since the host boot volume only has <15GB free.) for those of you who don't want read the pastie, let me summarize: installer is failing with a generic obj-c exception: installer: Error verifying PACKAGE_NAME package contents: *** -[NSCFString substringFromIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds (where PACKAGE_NAME is the package it's attempting to install) it doesn't seem to matter whether the package i'm attempting to install is a mpkg or a regular pkg (flat or directory). the installer binary is definitely giving the error (i ran strings on it and found that printf string). my search on google for '"error verifying" "package contents" installer' yield nothing useful. one mention on the afp548 forums re: the MS Office 12.1.0 updater yielding a package verification error, but that is a JavaScript error, not an obj-c error. i can't find any information about what constitutes "package verification" by installer. i've tried messing around with the various .plist files, but intentionally creating malformed XML doesn't seem to cause problems for installer. (i haven't tried the .dist files yet, though.) here's what else i've done w/r/t debugging so far: - i reduced the # of pkgs to just the ones that were causing problems, removing all OS updates (mainly so it would go faster). in other words, the InstaDMG is just using the cached 10.5.0 image and then moving on to the CustomPKGs folder. as i said, the same pkgs fail each time. some pkgs are downloaded and some are custom-rolled. - i attempted to run the chroot install on another [previously imaged] volume i had mounted. interestingly, that worked just fine. note that volume had been booted and used, and it did not originate from an InstaDMG workflow. - i dumped the environment vars in the instadmg script at the point of the chrooted install. nothing interesting here. - i removed the 'trap' statement and ctrl-c'd InstaDMG after it failed installing the first few pkgs, allowing me to retain the environment that InstaDMG is working in (the mounted system image with the shadow file). i then ran the chroot'd install and interestingly enough, it failed with the same error. (hooray for replicating behavior!) note: i'll eventually mount the image manually and not kill InstaDMG in the middle of its script -- commenting out the line was faster for me right now while i'm tracing the code. - installer seems to have other problems besides installing when executed within the chrooted environment -- it seems to have problems getting -pkginfo, too, failing with the same error. this is driving me nuts. any ideas or pointers? thanks, -justin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com