[Casper] jamfhelper and adobe cs 4

Criss Myers cmyers at uclan.ac.uk
Mon Sep 7 08:57:47 PDT 2009


I'm at home now so can't check, I see jamfhelper.app and it's  
contents, should the lockscreen app be separate, could u send a screen  
shot of the firstrun folder contents?

I don't recall a lockscreen.app

If not how am I gonna get it in there

Criss

On 7 Sep 2009, at 16:15, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote:

> Not likely a conflict. FirstRun does each step and typically waits  
> to start the next. You can see what it all will do if you image a  
> system, do not boot into the imaged side, and look in System/Library/ 
> StartUpItems/FirstRun.
>
> I know I've seen this before as well, but It was with 7.0 I believe.  
> Odd its happening on these newer.
>
> If the lockscreen app/binary and lock.png image for adobe are in the  
> FirstRun I'm not sure what's happening. Might need to dig deeper  
> into All Messages in console to see errors or what not.
>
> Craig Ernst
> UW-Eau Claire
> (715) 836-3639
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:33 AM, "Heath, Jay" <jheath at ecfs.org> wrote:
>
>> Could it be conflicts during FirstRun? I am running a few other  
>> things at FirstRun. Based on my configurations, I add certain local  
>> users via script at reboot, a few printers mapping to OD, and also  
>> a Smart software installer policy (which as per Jamf support is  
>> triggered via firstrun). I'd love to know more about how FirstRun  
>> works--might help with troubleshooting.
>>
>> What makes me wonder about a conflict is that I have seen the adobe  
>> installer attempt to log out after CS4 is installed, it deletes  
>> everything in the home folder except Library and unmounts the  
>> installer DMG. What is causing it to remain logged in?
>>
>> - Jay Heath
>>
>> Fieldston Lower
>> jheath at ecfs.org
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Criss Myers wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jay,
>>>
>>> Thats exactly what i get, the
>>>
>>> "Installing adobe products......" etc locked screen does not  
>>> appear, i get full access to the finder but logged in as the adobe  
>>> installer user.
>>>
>>> I have 2 imacs that previously worked fine and not both have the  
>>> same behavior, this is with Casper 7.0.1 and 7.1 on a live and a  
>>> test server
>>>
>>> It installs fine, the problem is a student could use the client  
>>> while it was installing without having to login etc
>>>
>>> If i cant solve this i will just have to go live with this behaviour
>>>
>>> Criss
>>>
>>>
>>> Criss Myers
>>> Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
>>> Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
>>> LIS Business Support Team
>>> Library 301
>>> University of Central Lancashire
>>> Preston PR1 2HE
>>> Ex 5054
>>> 01772 895054
>>>
>>> >>> "Heath, Jay" <jheath at ecfs.org> 09/07/09 3:19 PM >>>
>>> I'm having a similar issue with the Adobe CS4 installer not  
>>> working exactly like it is supposed to. I get the adobe installer  
>>> backdrop but then a dock, menu bar and finder window pop up. Then  
>>> it completes the install normally, but stays logged in as  
>>> adobeinstall. My troubleshooting hasn't yielded results, so it's  
>>> hard to say what is conflicting here. It also seems to be somwhat  
>>> inconsistent as to when this occurs...I wish I had time right now  
>>> to troubleshoot it from the groud up
>>> . As it is, the install does work, just not exactly as it is  
>>> supposed to.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, I'm curious to hear if people have found similar behavior,  
>>> and if so, what their solution was. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:53, "Criss  Myers" <CMyers at uclan.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone having issues with the jamfhelper and CS 4 deployment  
>>>> during imaging.
>>>>
>>>> When an autorun contains CS 4 it creates a FirstRun script to  
>>>> install CS 4, when the mac reboots it logs in as Adobe installer  
>>>> client and then runs the jamfhelper to lock the Screen with a  
>>>> full screen image.
>>>>
>>>> This worked fine in the test lab but is now not working in my  
>>>> live environment
>>>>
>>>> Using Casper 7.0.1 in both lab and live,
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else had this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Criss
>>>>
>>>> Criss Myers
>>>> Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
>>>> Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
>>>> LIS Business Support Team
>>>> Library 301
>>>> University of Central Lancashire
>>>> Preston PR1 2HE
>>>> Ex 5054
>>>> 01772 895054
>>>>
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