Just today, I downloaded the latest Mac installer and tried to install Plone on a new (today) install of Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Intel) on a brand new hard drive. No other third-party software has been installed yet, pure Apple! It is a retail version install disc.
The result was the same as when I tried the install on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Intel). Which was also pure Apple. In both cases it gets past the point at which the user puts in a password for the Admin of Plone. After a little while a popup error box says something to the affect "unable to change file permissions." I click the button and it continues into infinity trying to install, after two hours I kill the installer. Again I check for logs but find nothing relevant. (No files were deleted either, thank God!) There is a third-party installer: "Pacifist 2.6.4" (a direct replacement for Apple's Installer) It also fails. But, it makes the following directories: "Macintosh HD/Users/steve" and places them into /Volumes and installs three directories into "steve". This maybe irrelevant, but most experienced Mac users change their HDD's name to something they can more easily relate to. I am no different. Though on a second try with "pure Leopard" and for the sake of tracking down this error I changed my startup drive's name to "Macintosh HD" and made a user named "steve". This made some difference in that it installed the same three directories that Pacifist installed, but this time in the 'real' "steve" directory. The installer still would not complete. -Dan -- View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/Plone-Installer-for-Mac-Failed-Deleted-Most-Applications-tp5492013p5543751.html Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
