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r m(deleted)
09/19/2007 1:27 PM
post1411
Installation error on non-supported Linux   
Hi,

Upon trying to install the latest 6.3.2 from ISO I keep getting an error indicating that files are missing. The 
installation halts at that point, game over.

Looking in the install log file, the missing files are uninstaller.dat, uninstaller.jar
under a directory path that does not exist at <my-selected-path-prefix>/opt/qnx632/_uninstall/qnx632/

My Linux distribution is a recent Mandriva (RedHat compatible, more or less) one.
I'm not sure how this would cause missing files. I'm also installing from
loopback filesystem with ISO mounted as a partition. Again, I don't see how this
could cause the problem. Checksums and MD5 are okay for ISO and internal files.

Have any ideas?

Thanks.

Raymond
Rodney Dowdall
09/19/2007 2:27 PM
post1420
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
How did you launch the installer?  Did you run the bin file?
r m(deleted)
09/19/2007 2:52 PM
post1421
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
Yes, I launched the .bin file as root within the ISO mounted on a loop device.

Raymond
r m(deleted)
09/19/2007 2:54 PM
post1422
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
Is the problem that I didn't launch this from / ?
I see that the autorun script is cd'ing to /.

Raymond
Keith Russell(deleted)
09/19/2007 2:58 PM
post1424
RE: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
That would be a problem. Try it again from /. 

--
Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: r m [mailto:laseray@gmail.com] 
Sent: September 19, 2007 14:55
To: momenticsgs-community
Subject: Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux

Is the problem that I didn't launch this from / ?
I see that the autorun script is cd'ing to /.

Raymond

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r m(deleted)
09/19/2007 2:59 PM
post1425
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
Tried launching from /, same thing.

Raymond
Rodney Dowdall
09/19/2007 3:16 PM
post1427
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
Okay, I don't think you should have to do this, but try the following:

Create an directory in /tmp call 632install.  Copy the complete contents from the ISO to this directory.  Run the bin 
file from here.  

I was getting the same error on Ubuntu as you when I tried to run the install with just a java -cp /media/cdrom/
qnx_linux_setup.jar run.  I don't think it could find my java installation at that point.  Running the bin from the CD 
ran in to the Ubuntu permission thing with CD's, so I copied the CD to the tmp dir I created and it installed fine.  
Make sure you are also running that bin file with root permissions.

Maybe because you are mounting the ISO, it is screwing up the bin file extraction.
r m(deleted)
09/19/2007 4:27 PM
post1434
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
> Okay, I don't think you should have to do this, but try the following:
> 
> Create an directory in /tmp call 632install.  Copy the complete contents from 
> the ISO to this directory.  Run the bin file from here.  

Don't have enough space in /tmp, so I copied all of it to another partition.
Installed fine from there. I should have thought of that. Brain is stuck in
low gear.

> I was getting the same error on Ubuntu as you when I tried to run the install 
> with just a java -cp /media/cdrom/qnx_linux_setup.jar run.  I don't think it 
> could find my java installation at that point.  Running the bin from the CD 
> ran in to the Ubuntu permission thing with CD's, so I copied the CD to the tmp
>  dir I created and it installed fine.  Make sure you are also running that bin
>  file with root permissions.

On my system I have Java in a non-standard location. Still installed okay.

> Maybe because you are mounting the ISO, it is screwing up the bin file 
> extraction.

I think this is the case. Perhaps there is a mount option that is needed, not sure.
It is odd because you would imagine that mounted either as a CD or loop would
amount to the same thing.

Perhaps for other users reference someone could put a note in the installation 
documentation about this.

Also, seems to work on Mandriva 2007.1 Spring. Have to make some tests to be 
sure. Momentics menu is there also (under KDE, don't have GNOME installed). 

Might be an idea to try it with IcedTea Java (an OpenJDK version). I have used 
it with Eclipse and it works up to a point. Eventually it crashes, but that might 
be because I installed an unstable version.

Thanks for the assistance.

Regards,

Raymond
Rodney Dowdall
09/21/2007 4:08 PM
post1509
Re: Installation error on non-supported Linux   
 
> On my system I have Java in a non-standard location. Still installed okay.

When you run the bin file it extracts a version of the VM, so it negates the possibility of not finding a Java VM. 

> 
> 
> I think this is the case. Perhaps there is a mount option that is needed, not 
> sure.
> It is odd because you would imagine that mounted either as a CD or loop would
> amount to the same thing.
> 
> Perhaps for other users reference someone could put a note in the installation
>  
> documentation about this.

I don't think it's a mount option, I think it's a weakness with the bin file.  It wants to extract the VM and then run 
the JAR.  Because it was a mounted ISO, perhaps it had problems with the extraction.

> 
> Also, seems to work on Mandriva 2007.1 Spring. Have to make some tests to be 
> sure. Momentics menu is there also (under KDE, don't have GNOME installed). 
> 
> Might be an idea to try it with IcedTea Java (an OpenJDK version). I have used
>  
> it with Eclipse and it works up to a point. Eventually it crashes, but that 
> might 
> be because I installed an unstable version.

I'll give that VM a try on Ubuntu, if I can find it. 


> 
> Thanks for the assistance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raymond
>

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