Solaris install successful even with postinstall failure

[injinius]

I tried installing VirtualBox on a Solaris 10 box using the Readme.txt instructions. The following step:

pkgadd -G -d VirtualBox-2.0.2-SunOS-amd64-r36488.pkg

produced the following error messages during the postinstall phase: [...] ## Executing postinstall script. Configuring VirtualBox kernel module... /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: /usr/xpg4/bin/id: not found /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: test: argument expected /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: /usr/xpg4/bin/id: not found /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: test: argument expected Configuring VirtualBox NetFilter kernel module... /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: /usr/xpg4/bin/id: not found /opt/VirtualBox/vboxdrv.sh: test: argument expected Creating links... devfsadm: driver failed to attach: vboxdrv Done.

but the package manager still thought the installation went well:

Installation of <SUNWvbox> was successful.

Apparently, the problem was that this machine was missing the /usr/xpg4/bin/id command (from the SUNWxcu4 package). In any case, I'm assuming that the "devfsadm: driver failed to attach: vboxdrv" message means that the install wasn't successful and that the overall package installation should have failed too.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Which version of Solaris 10 is this? u4 or u5 or..? Could you please paste output of cat /etc/release ?

[injinius]

It was Solaris 10 u5. I don't have access to the machine right now, so I can't produce the /etc/release information. In any case, I don't see how the Solaris version makes that much of a difference. I'm assuming this is a shell scripting bug (i.e. not checking the error status of vboxdrv.sh) which allows the install to complete successfully.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

The Solaris version becomes relevant because most other S10 u5s has /usr/xpg4/bin/id. I will fix the installer, thanks for the report.

[injinius]

Thanks for the quick response. I can't say why the xpg4 "stuff" wasn't available on this system. It is there on some other Solaris 10 u5 boxes I have access to. Again, hopefully this fix will make the postinstall a little bit more bulletproof.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if necessary.

[Bryan Stansell]

I just installed 2.2.4 on SXCE B115 without the SUNWxcu4 and vboxdrv.sh failed. The check_root function has a problem...it tries /usr/xpg4/bin/id first, then wants to fall back to the result of 'which id', but the logic isn't right.

if test ! -f "$idbin"; then

found=which id | grep "no id" if test ! -z "$found"; then

abort "Failed to find a suitable user id binary! Aborting"

else

idbin=$found

fi

fi

$found is set to an error string if id isn't found (because of the grep), and is empty if it is, breaking the "idbin=$found" portion (it's set to nothing).

One way to fix it is to use "idbin=which id" in the else part, which is how I hacked it to work.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

This has been fixed in internal SVN. Thank you for reporting.

[Bryan Stansell]

The check_root function seems to have issues in the 3.0.8 release. It has:

if test ! -f "$found" || test ! -h "$found"; then

and should really be

if test ! -f "$found" && test ! -h "$found"; then

Thanks.

Bryan

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

It should be

if test ! -x "$found"; then

Will be fixed in SVN, thanks for the report.

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Fixed in 3.0.12