Post build installs – seem to hang on restart command

If you don’t mind posting the script that is causing your grief to http://pastebin.com/ We can take a look at it and try to figure it out. So long as the script is running as root and has a reboot in it, it should work. Perhaps something else is getting hung up before the reboot.

Nate

mgb123 wrote:

Nate,

thanks very much. I’ll post the script shortly. I do have a number of installs in there that seem to drag on forever – that’s the issue with post boot installs taking place in the background- I have no idea when they’re done.

I’m wondering if I should also be looking for some sort of way to indicate when installs have completed in the background, like a popup or something similar…

Have you thought about using Munki? (http://code.google.com/p/munki/) I use it for all my firstboot installs and it works wonderfully. Its a lot more refined then a firstboot script installing packages via commandline and can manage future software and patch installs as well.

Nate

I’ve never used shutdown -r +1 before, so I can’t attest to its usage, but perhaps you could try this instead and see what it does.

#Wait 60 seconds
sleep 60

#Reboot
reboot

Nate