[PLUG] root login

Bruce Kilpatrick bakilpatrick at verizon.net
Sat Jan 13 03:26:06 UTC 2007


Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > root at moose:~# ./CMMFS_linux_1_0_3_12.sh
>> > Unpacking JRE
>> > Preparing JRE
>> > ./CMMFS_linux_1_0_3_12.sh: 217: bin/unpack200: not found
>> > Error unpacking jar files. Aborting.
>>
>> So you're missing "unpack200".  Google sez it's in JDK 1.5 or later.
>> I don't remember which repo you have to install to get JDK; maybe it's
>> in Universe or Multiverse.
>>
>> > You might need admistrative priviledges for this operation.
>> > root at moose:`#
>>
>> You might, but that's not the problem here.
> 
> 
> I wouldn't be so sure.. Since the package looks as though it's actually
> prepping it's own version of the JRE ("Unpacking JRE .. Preparing JRE...")
> and given that the path is not (1) absolute, nor (2) simply a single file
> name, I'd guess that the JRE unpack / preparation is failing silently, and
> the CMMFS installer isn't realizing it until it tries to run bin/unpack200.
> 
> If this were a path/missing program issue, I'd expect the error to be
> "./CMMFS_linux_1_0_3_12.sh: 217: unpack200: not found" or
> "./CMMFS_linux_1_0_3_12.sh: 217: $JAVA_HOME/bin/unpack200: not found" (with
> $JAVA_HOME expanded).
> 
> The initial failure could certainly be due to permissions, or any number of
> other things. (generally boiling down to a poor installer though).  And
> however you look at it, it *is* generating horrible error messages.
> 
> --Rogan
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Thanks for the input.  I haven't gone back and tried the pointers for 
logging in as root, yet.  I will keep you posted.





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