MacPorts dmg installer hangs up, does not finish ?

[Bill Hernandez]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Bill Hernandez wrote:
>> I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine.
>> I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it  
>> several  times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator  
>> about 3/4 of  the way through, and never finishes.
>
> The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what  
> does it say there?
>
> Rainer
>
>

This is where it hangs...

1 Mar 10 13:21:09 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts  
detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode.
2 Mar 10 13:21:15 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts  
detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode.
3 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts  
detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode.
4 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts  
detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode.
5 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script  
preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode.
6 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script  
postflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility  
mode.
7 Mar 10 13:23:01 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script  
preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode.
8 Mar 10 13:23:02 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script  
postflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility  
mode.


Bill Hernandez
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