Stack Trace:
java.util.zip.ZipError: jzentry == 0,
…
This Application has Unexpectedly Quit: Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

Out of the 4 times it’s happened so far today, 3 times I was able to get past the error by just trying the install again, after removing any leftover /tmp/install.dir entries. I might have been able to do that with the 1st failure as well, but I tried a different build package first that time.

UPDATE: Oh great, a new error on zlinux,

./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin
Preparing to install…
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive…
Unpacking the JRE…
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive…
Configuring the installer for this system’s environment…
strings: ‘/lib/libc.so.6′: No such file

./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin: line 2472: /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: No such file or directory
./STAF345-setup-zlinux-32.bin: line 2472: exec: /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: cannot execute: Bad address
# ls -l /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1003 513 58042 Dec 14 2009 /tmp/install.dir.2598/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java

UPDATE: Dreamhost seems to have intentionally removed the wp-shortstat.php plugin from their system. They claim it’s not compatible with the version of wordpress they are using, a statement which ignores the weeks it was working just fine. Maybe it was thrashing the DB in the background? It wouldn’t be half as annoying if there was any other way to get stats for a ‘simple’ install, but they purposely place ‘simple’ installs in a location you can not edit at all.

Sometimes the information exposed is just interesting, but without practical value. In the World of Warcraft, I’ve run into more than a few of these types of errors. The most recent one left me in a sort of limbo state. As part of the new expansion, you take part in an epic battle that includes several ‘phased’ zones that are only enter-able via automation, during cut-scenes. One of these zones is the epic final battle between the Naga and the lord of the water realm they seek to take over. You get zoned into the area after a cut-scene boat-ride, and have a couple of minutes where you can control your character as you follow the automated NPCs around a major battle scene. Hundreds, if not thousands of NPC’s can be seen fighting around you. Eventually another cut-scene starts up, the Naga kill their man and swim into his realm. It looks really nifty. Somehow I ended up stuck in the zone after I should have phased out to the next segment, which is where things got interesting.

All around me, the battle is still raging in the distance, eventually circling around to the point in the timeline where the player gets phased in, but since I wasn’t standing in the magic spot it placed me in, I could control the camera and move around, even during parts that I thought were pre-rendered. What I think this means is that somewhere in the Blizzard datacenter, there are machines (Ok, probably virtual slices of machines) that do nothing but fight this one battle over and over, 24×7, 365 days a year, regardless of if anyone is in them. From a little experimenting with the hostile NPCs, it looks like a practically fully functional zone; the NPCs are unkillable, but suffer and give damage that looks to be properly tracked, up to the 0-point at which some special rule probably kicks in and doesn’t ‘kill’ the mob even when it would hit 0 HP. If I ever get stuck in the zone again (you can get out, FYI, by letting one of those mobs kill you. when you swim back to your body, you get zoned into the post-final-battle version of the zone), I’m going to try attacking one of the talking mobs during what would be a cut-scene for anyone else. Ideally, I’ll do this with a second box running through the zone in normal mode. If only I had an infinite supply of 80′s ready to run through the zone.

During the post-launch rush, I’m sure the zone gets lots of usage, but I have to wonder how well they planned out utilization vs processing-cost a year from now, when visitors could be days or weeks apart. Will they still be spending the same amount of processing power putting on a play to an empty house, or does the zone have enough smarts built in to suspend itself once empty? It makes me wonder how much ‘effort’ is wasted on zones that are practically dead now, like the two racial starting zones from Burning Crusade….

And of course neither repair nor rollback look like they will fix the problem. Time to see if I have a 32 bit vista box that has successfully applied SP1, and can ‘borrow’ it’s copy of the .exe.

sigh.

Sounds like a hardware failure. Here’s hoping it’s only something throwaway like /tmp, but I’m not holding my breath since it’s probably all the same physical disk slice underneath.

I’m 99.99% sure the causer of your problem is that  you are accessing a file on a non HFS+ filesystem, like say an external USB drive, or perhaps a network share from a windows box.  That seemed to be the issue when I got it.  The lack of resource fork can be safely ignored for files on such filesystems.

If you are seeing the error on a proper mac-disk, I dunno what to tell you.  Hope you have good backups?

“Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring”

Simply edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script, and remove the HWADDR line, then restart networking ( /etc/init.d/network restart ).