Restore Failure. Could not restore - Invalid argument

[ricede]

I tried this morning to make a bootable Mountain Lion installer on a USB stick. In disk utility under the restore tab, i dragged the InstallESD.dmg to the source box & the stick to the Destination box. The InstallESD.dmg came from the downloaded installer in my applications folder.

I got a message when it was done of : Restore Failure. Could not restore - Invalid argument. The USB stick did NOT remount on the desktop.

On opening the USB stick - it appears that the installer has been restored to it.

In the Console i found this :


Oct 11 09:50:30 Rics-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0xffffff8019092cc0; s 0x36cc00 e 0x36cc00)
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got user: Ric
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got ruser: (null)
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got service: authorization
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in od_principal_for_user(): No authentication authority returned
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in od_principal_for_user(): failed: 7
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Done cleanup3
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Kerberos 5 refuses you
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): pam_sm_authenticate: ntlm
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_acct_mgmt(): OpenDirectory - Membership cache TTL set to 1800.
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in od_record_check_pwpolicy(): retval: 0
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in od_record_attribute_create_cfstring(): returned 2 attributes for dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthenticationAuthority
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Establishing credentials
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got user: Ric
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Context initialised
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got euid, egid: 0 0
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done getpwnam()
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done setegid() & seteuid()
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: krb5 user Ric doesn't have a principal
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup3
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done seteuid() & setegid()
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup4
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: ntlm
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authorizationhost[1651]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: no domain found skipping
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: UID 501 authenticated as user Ric (UID 501) for right 'system.privilege.admin'
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [1577] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [1577] (3,0)
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local coreservicesd[27]: Application App:"Disk Utility" [ 0x0/0x185185] @ 0x0x7fa8aae01f80 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASNs ( ( ASN:0x0-0x196196 ), so denying.
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local WindowServer[106]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Disk Utility, psn 0x0-0x185185, securitySessionID=0x186a6, err=-13066
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/usr/libexec/security_authtrampoline' [1652] for authorization created by '/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app' [1577] (3,0)
Oct 11 09:51:51 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local authexec[1652]: executing /usr/sbin/asr
Oct 11 10:06:39 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.ShareKitHelper[1675]: --warning: [ShareKit-XPC] Received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INVALID
Oct 11 10:06:39 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.ShareKitHelper[1675]: --warning: [ShareKit-XPC] connectionWithClientInterrupted
Oct 11 10:06:39 Rics-MacBook-Pro.local com.apple.ShareKitHelper[1675]: --warning: [ShareKit] Cancel UI for running services with Client PID: 1673


Please can anyone explain to me whether this makes the install on the stick invalid & unusable. If so - why did the restore fail ?

[ganbustein]

Quote: Originally Posted by ricede I tried this morning to make a bootable Mountain Lion installer on a USB stick. In disk utility under the restore tab, i dragged the InstallESD.dmg to the source box & the stick to the Destination box. The InstallESD.dmg came from the downloaded installer in my applications folder.

You need to mount the "InstallESD.dmg" as a volume, and then use that volume as the source.

As I recall, the error messages you're getting are purely cosmetic, albeit frightening. (Just in time for Halloween?) Mounting the volume first avoids the error messages.

[agentx]

Yep should be good so i would just try and boot from it and install.

[ricede]

Quote: Originally Posted by ganbustein You need to mount the "InstallESD.dmg" as a volume, and then use that volume as the source.

Thanks. I wiped the stick & did it again like that. No error message this time.