Installing Gnome on Solaris 8

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

I can't get the installer program beyond the 0%/0% activity bars saying 
"Preparing to install packages" on an Ultra10 running Solaris 8 =O(

I've tried over the net loading, and I've tried aiming it at a local copy of all 
the files I'd FTP'd over - no luck.  All that's left is trying to get a Solaris 
version of RPM (which I think I've seen) and trying to install by hand =OZ

This is the truss output I get - I don't see a coredump normally:

poll(0xFFBEDE18, 1, -1)                         = 1
read(4, "0101 "8F\0\0\0\001\0\0 D".., 32)       = 32
time()                                          = 959677054
stat("/opt/gnome/etc/gnome/config-override//Gnome", 0xFFBEE0B8) Err#2 ENOENT
stat("./gnome/config-override//Gnome", 0xFFBEE0B8) Err#2 ENOENT
stat("/opt/gnome/etc/gnome/config//Gnome", 0xFFBEE0B8) Err#2 ENOENT
stat("./gnome/config//Gnome", 0xFFBEE0B8)       Err#2 ENOENT
time()                                          = 959677054
stat("//.gnome//Gnome", 0xFFBEE0A0)             = 0
time()                                          = 959677054
write(4, " 518\00401\001C701\0\0\n".., 184)     = 184
read(4, 0xFFBEE290, 32)                         Err#11 EAGAIN
poll(0xFFBEE038, 1, -1)                         = 1
read(4, "0118 "99\0\00190\0\0\0\0".., 32)       = 32
readv(4, 0xFFBEE210, 2)                         = 1600
write(4, " H02019601\001C701\001CB".., 1648)    = 1648
read(4, 0xFFBEE290, 32)                         Err#11 EAGAIN
poll(0xFFBEE048, 1, -1)                         = 1
read(4, "01\0 "9C\0\0\003\0\0\0 (".., 32)       = 32
read(4, "\0\b\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12)         = 12
read(4, "0118 "9D\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 E".., 32)       = 32
    Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS  %pc = 0x0006EE1C
      siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
    Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [caught]
      siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00000000
write(4, " 702\00501\001CC01\0\0 @".., 132)     = 132
read(4, 0xFFBEE918, 32)                         Err#11 EAGAIN
poll(0xFFBEE6D0, 1, -1)                         = 1
read(4, "0101 "A6\0\0\0\001\0\0 D".., 32)       = 32
fork()                                          = 6960
waitid(P_PID, 6960, 0xFFBEE928, WEXITED|WTRAPPED) = 0
_exit(1)


By attaching a dbx session to the process, I get the following:

(dbx) cont
signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) in (unknown) at 0x6ee1c
0x0006ee1c:     ld      [%o0], %o0
(dbx) where
=>[1] 0x6ee1c(0x425138, 0x41b010, 0xffbeef08, 0x1, 0xffbeeef4, 0x10000), at 
0x6ee1b
  [2] g_hash_table_foreach(0x43c840, 0x6ee10, 0xffbeef08, 0xffbeeb98, 
0x81010100, 0xff00), at 0x2d9ed0
  [3] 0x6ef5c(0x3e, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x6ef5b
  [4] install_packages(0x3b7400, 0x6f478, 0x6f354, 0x6f028, 0x1, 0xfefc2188), at 
0x7023c
  [5] 0x6ae70(0x408ff0, 0x3ba530, 0x3b8130, 0x0, 0x231d8, 0x2de7e8), at 0x6ae6f
  [6] 0x2de610(0x6ad78, 0xffbef168, 0x408ff0, 0x43efe8, 0x2, 0x2ddfe4), at 
0x2de60f
  [7] 0x2dd4f4(0x3b3800, 0x3b3800, 0x3b3800, 0x3b3b18, 0xffbef168, 0x3b3b10), at 
0x2dd4f3
  [8] 0x2ddb9c(0x3b3800, 0x3b3800, 0x3b3800, 0x3b3b18, 0x3b3800, 0x1), at 
0x2ddb9b
  [9] g_main_run(0x424fd8, 0x3b2000, 0x0, 0x3acc94, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x2ddd24
  [10] gtk_main(0x1442e000, 0x3b7ff0, 0x2f3690, 0x1, 0x2e93a4, 0xff01aba4), at 
0x23887c
  [11] main(0x0, 0xffbef344, 0xffbef34c, 0x3b69e8, 0x0, 0x0), at 0x6ec08


Is this a know issue?

Ta,
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