Installation Hanging

[polar1]

I am installing a software product on a Solaris 5.8 system
in the foreground. Shortly after it begins it hangs - no error messaged. I tried for a test installing it in the background ( not a good idea because there is a question at the end I need to answer ) but it ran through ok. Is there a process limit running in the foreground? Any toughts would be a great help?

 

[Annihilannic]

Perhaps it is displaying an X windows GUI on the system's console?

Annihilannic.

 

[polar1]

No there is no GUI involved in this. Just ./executable and it should run.

 

[kduffin]

You could always check what the installation is doing by attatching to the process with truss (ie truss -p <pid>). It might at least give you a clue.

Cheers,

Keith
keith@duffin.org

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