Strange install of 8.5b1 on Mac OS 10.5.3

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Has anybody else had problems installing the new 8.5 beta 1 for Mac OSX (I’d have put “Mac OSX” in the “platform” dropdown above, but it AIN’T AVAILABLE, Lotus!!!)?

This machine, a MacBook Pro running 10.5.3, has had 7.02 on it, and I’d installed and later removed an early beta from January of the Mac client. There was no other 8.x install on it at the time I tried this.

The install runs, appears to complete, but reports it was only partially successful. The installer spit out this report at the end of the run:

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The requested provisioning operation(s) completed with partial success.

Partial installation and setup occurred.

Below are details about the features that failed to set up.

CWPPR0503I: The installation of feature com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser.feature_6.2.0.200805251412 was cancelled.

---- Current configuration problems -----

Core Expeditor Platform Feature (6.2.0.200805251412) requires feature “com.ibm.rcp.jvm.feature (1.0.0)”, or later version.

---- Configuration problems after the operation -----

Default Personality (6.2.0.200805251412) requires plug-in “com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser”.

RCP Portal Application User Interface (6.2.0.200805251412) requires plug-in “com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser”.

Integrated Browser Application Component (6.2.0.200805251412) requires plug-in “com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser”.

Embedded Browser Component for Portal Managed Environment (6.2.0.200805251412) requires plug-in “com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser”.

Generic Application Container (6.2.0.200805251412) requires plug-in “com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser”.

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It coyly suggests that installation of com.ibm.rcp.ui.browser.feature* was “canceled,” but I sure didn’t cancel anything, and without that component the thing ain’t gonna run. Sure enough, you try to start the console, and after putting “Lotus Notes” in the menu bar at the top of the screen, (no splash screen or anything else) the thing exits. The console reports a problem similar to the messages above.

So, what’s the deal? Do I need to install a special JVM, which seems to be what the message

Core Expeditor Platform Feature (6.2.0.200805251412) requires feature “com.ibm.rcp.jvm.feature (1.0.0)”, or later version.

…is suggesting? Has anybody gotten this working? For now, I’ll have to go back to 7.0x, since I have work to do, but it’d be nice if this actually worked, or at least produced clearer indications of what it wants.

Turtle

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Subject: OK, more details

Well, after some suggestions from Sphereians, I completely obliterated any trace of any previous Notes installation of any version from this machine. Ran the installer again, it failed again. Ran the uninstaller, it claimed to completely remove the 8.5b1 installation. Ran the installer again, it failed again.

In precisely, mathematically the same way it’s failed all along.

Is there any way to forcibly install the missing framework feature that it’s griping that it couldn’t install?

For anyone who cares, I have a horribly-detailed (4000+lines) console log taken during the entire install process. It never produces any obvious errors, like it can’t find something crucial or that the pkg is corrupt. The closest thing to a hint of what might be happening is this:

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6/2/08 7:41:24 PM runner[2595] postinstall[2631]: Status: Current configuration contains errors that are not corrected by the requested operation and more errors would be introduced. See details for more information.

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WHAT details? What could possibly be MORE detailed???

And of course it doesn’t say WHAT it doesn’t like about the “current configuration,” or even what configuration (machine, OS, the pkg, the shipped-by-IBM configuration for the install, my socks, what?) it doesn’t like.

Somebody with an Apple at IBM, running 10.5.2 or 10.5.3, any suggestions? I’ve gotten posts on my blog advising that there are humans who didn’t encounter this, so I’d like to find out what’s weird about this particular MacBook Pro, because if I’m having these problems, normal people will have them, too…

As a review, this is a new archive-and-install of Mac OSX 10.5.0, immediately upgraded with the combo 10.5.3 update before the install of 8.5b1, and 7.0x ran just fine on this machine.

Turtle