Installation on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) failed

[jelrikvh]

Hi,

I tried to install Netbeans 6.8 onto my Macbook Pro running OSX Snow Leopard (10.6) but it keeps telling me "The installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance."

Firstly, I tried my desired package, PHP, but I also tried the full package and the CPP packages from the site. After that, I tried to install the 6.7.1, 6.5.1 and nightly build packages (PHP).

Unfortunately, I keep getting the same message (quoted above) over and over again. Other people seem to have no problems in running NB6.8 on their Snow Leopard Mac.

My Java version is the version included in Snow Leopard:
java version "1.6.0_17"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04-248-10M3025)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01-101, mixed mode)

I hope anyone here on the forums or mailinglist can aid me in this problem! Thanks in advance for that.

Regards,
--jelrikvh

[jelrikvh]

Hi, Thanks for replying.
I tried to figure out which lines seem to be important and I think I found them. I am not aware of this lists rules, so I pasted them below.

It seems there is some kind of authorization issue. I tried to chown the given file by hand after the installation, but as the log below indicates some future actions, I did not expect much of it. It didn't help. Maybe you can tell me how I can influence the installer to use my own username, in stead of the root user I use to authenticate?


1472 Jan 24 13:00:57 JELRIKVHMBP installd[574]: ./postflight: + echo Changing ownership for /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.8.app
1473 Jan 24 13:00:57 JELRIKVHMBP installd[574]: ./postflight: Changing ownership for /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.8.app
1474 Jan 24 13:00:57 JELRIKVHMBP installd[574]: ./postflight: + chown -R root:admin '/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 6.8.app'
1475 Jan 24 13:00:57 JELRIKVHMBP installd[574]: ./postflight: chown: admin: Invalid argument
1476 Jan 24 13:00:57 JELRIKVHMBP installd[574]: PackageKit: Install Failed: PKG: post-flight scripts for "org.netbeans.ide.baseide.200912041610"\nError Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code= 112 UserInfo=0x100191af0 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package

[Yulia Novozhilova]

Hi,

Could you please send me the following information (you can send it to my personal e-mail address).
1) file /etc/group
2) file /etc/passwd
3) in terminal write

[jelrikvh]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I did not manage to chown -R root:admin but I just tried and it turned out the group "admin" did not exist (anymore). So I created it and added myself (and root) to it. My netbeans installer now works fine.

Thanks for your help!

[Oddvard Myrnes]

HEY.....This is not advisable. You send confidentional system info that can
allow malicious break in!

odd

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Subject: [nbusers] Re: Installation on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) failed


Hi,

Could you please send me the following information (you can send it to my
personal e-mail address).
1) file /etc/group
2) file /etc/passwd
3) in terminal write

[Dmitry Lipin]

Hi,
Could you please check /var/log/install.log for errors?
Or feel free to file an issue against installer with attaching that file.

Dmitry

On 24.01.2010 15:12, jelrikvh wrote:

[Yulia Novozhilova]

That is why I suggest to send it personally. Anyway, you can send the only info you are ready to
share(may be 3,4,5 would be enough).
I'm just trying to understand why "admin: Invalid argument" happened during installation. Either
there is something wrong with root/admin or user uses different shell.

Thanks,
Yulia


Oddvard Myrnes wrote: