Post build installs – seem to hang on restart command

[mgb123]

I’ve been using post build installs kicked off by launch daemons.

In my first post build script I set many of the standard first boot defaults.

In my second, I install a handful of apps – and have a reboot command in place, but the reboot never takes place.

I see a message in console that states that console couldn’t detach – is this my issue?

What should I be looking for? Kinda flying blind here…

Thanks all,
Matt

[dead2sin]

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]

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…

[dead2sin]

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

[mgb123]

http://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=pkfvFnrw

[dead2sin]

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

[mgb123]

Nate,
The restart command you posted works perfectly. Thanks!

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