Casper Imaging 8.6 eror

[jyoung]

Good morning all. I have created a 10.7 netboot using Automater and all is working great for our latest round of MacBook Pro's. Casper Imaging comes up as it should and I can select the appropriate image. Where things are dying is when I have it set to erase the drive. If the check is in that box, I get a NilObjectException was not handled error and the process dies. The text scrolls by quickly but it gives a message of "preparing for block copy" then "cleaning up from block copy" and the NilObject erros comes up. I have tried setting the netboot as diskless as well as unchecking that box and get the same result. Any suggestions? Has anyone ran into this before?

[gachowski]

Yes, think it is a bug..

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=4426

and I think there are a lot of more posts about this...

[jyoung]

Also happens on older iMac's as well. Orginally thought it was machine specific to the new MBP's with the newest i7 cpu's.

[mpermann]

I ran into the same issue and for me it was a problem with the setting on the AFP service on the netboot server. If you follow the instructions in the last post located at [url]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2639721?start=0&tstart=0/url] your problem might be resolved as well. I was using Casper 8.52 and the netboot server was Mac OS 10.7.4.

[DeanaE]

I repaired permissions on the computer and it worked after that - there were a lot of java issues that it repaired.