The installer should report failure in this case and not hang. The hanging part of the problem is fixed and awaiting code review in:
Code review request:990 - Install complete reported before post-install tasks complete http://cr.opensolaris.org/~wmsch/bug-990/ http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=990 Synopsis: When the Transfer Module synchronously reports a failure or crashes, there is no notification and the Installer appears to hang. William Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM wrote: > Author: moinakg > Repository: /hg/caiman/slim_source > Latest revision: cad0801ca2045473f2c4d28a9c93765e7117aa3f > Total changesets: 1 > Log message: > 998 installer hangs at Fixing zero-length files... > > Files: > update: usr/src/lib/libtransfer/transfer_mod.py > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
