I tried patching the file installer today. It appears that if the file installer attempt to open a Jar file while it is being written to it kills the JVM (On Solaris x86 and SUSE 10) even with the latest JDK.
So I tried patching the file-install so it doesn't open a file, with a very recent modification date, and installed file-install to maven. However after updating the startup.properties I get the following in the logs and nothing else, even with DEBUG enabled. 16-Nov-2009 11:14:54 org.apache.felix.karaf.main.SimpleFileLock lock INFO: locking The lock is successfully acquired. Debugging the process, the Main is sleeping, waiting for something. After trying a number of things, it turned out it couldn't find the patched file-install. Reverting startup.properties got the system working again. Next I will try updating the system directory instead. Peter.
