As a sanity check, I did an install on an 10.5.8 intel core duo IMac. I tried installs as both privileged (able to admin) and completely unprivileged users. No problems. Trying some variations (like picking install targets with spaces in the filename or deliberately engineering a situation where the installer could not write a receipt), I was able to get the installer to fail, but it failed noisily, not passively.
I know this is frustrating, but at the moment this particular binary has been downloaded 1,442 times, and there is not a single open ticket against it in our tracker. (Though I certainly consider this the equivalent of a ticket.) So, if you've the patience for it, we need to figure out what's different about your circumstances. Are you, for example, installing to a separate volume? If so, anything different about that volume (mounted on a network, ownership turned off, filevault turned on, XCode installed/XCode not installed, Ports installed/ Ports not installed, ...) If you don't have the patience (and I wouldn't blame you), there's always the Unified Installer as an alternative. Just install XCode on the target machine and . It's considerably more versatile and robust than the OS X binary installer. Sorry for the continuing hassle, Steve On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:54 AM, macsweep <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
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