125958 - Installer creates invalid directories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 125106

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Koike Kazuhiko]

mozilla-win32-installer.exe or mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe
creates invalid directories.

On WinXP with NTFS, the following three directories are created
under \Documents and Settings\All Users.

... .
.... ...
<garbage>

An empty "Mozilla" directory is created under <garbage> directory.

The worst thing is I can't delete "... ." and ".... ...".  If I try
to delete these directories, I got the error message:

  Cannot delete file name : The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable.

According to Microsoft, I have to reformat the partition(!).

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q246026


My "... ." and ".... ..." are created on 3 Feb. I don't know the latest
installer creates these directories, because I can't remove them.
the garbage directory can be removed and created by the latest build.

Comment 1

[Koike Kazuhiko]

This is a blocker bug until an easy way to delete invalid directories is found
or developed.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Please attach the install_wizard.log that's created in the uninstall directory
and the install_status.log that's created in the program directory. That might
help us figure out where the blame lies (might be the XPInstall engine, the
installer stub, or Mozilla itself when it's launched).

Presumably you installed on Feb 3, was it that day's build? If not, which build?

Comment 3

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Attachment: install_wizard.log

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

the interesting stuff is:
** Folder StartMenuPrograms: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\スタート メニュー\プログラム
** Folder StartMenu        : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\スタート メニュー
** Folder FolderDesktop    : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\デスクトップ
** Folder FolderSendTo     : C:\Documents and Settings\kazhik\SendTo
** Folder FolderQuickLaunch: C:\Documents and Settings\kazhik\Application
Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
** fileExe                 : C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Mozilla.exe
** fFolderPath             : C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\....
....\.....\Mozilla\
** scExeDesc               : Mozilla
** fProgram                : C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\
** ERROR (-202): Windows Shortcut: C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\......\Mozilla
** ERROR (-202): Windows Shortcut: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\....
....\.....\Mozilla\Mozilla
** ERROR (-202): Windows Shortcut: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\....
....\.....\Mozilla\Profile Manager
** ERROR (-202): Windows Shortcut: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\....
....\.....\Mozilla\Readme
** ERROR (-202): Windows Shortcut: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\....
....\.....\Mozilla\License

Comment 5

[Jun MUTO]

It seems 2002-02-01-06-trunk or later builds cause these errors, 
2002-01-31-11-trunk or earlier don't have this bug.

On Win98-Japanese (FAT32), invalid directories are not created, 
but uninstall/install_wizard1.log logs same errors.

Comment 6

[Hideo Oshima]

Is this bug fixing for 0.9.9?
I think this will cause a serious problem for Japanese users.

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Nominating. I was sure this is a dupe, but in any case I think we've got to deal
with it. The shortcuts make the problem even worse.

Comment 8

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Please set the target milestone ASAP. This bug has a huge consequence
in Mozilla 1.0 localization. For Japanese, this means that:

1.  The user will not see any desktop icon for the installed program.
2.  The user will not find program icons under the Start | Program |
    Mozilla group. 

Without these 2, how does the user ever find the program to run? 
Average users are not going to go deep into C:\Program\... to look
for the executable. This needs to get fixed as soon as is practically
possible. 
CC'ing L10n and i18n folks so that they might be able to help.
Is this known bug? If so, when will this be fixed?

Comment 9

[Rui Xu]

This is a known bug, a dup of bug 125106.

Comment 10

[James "Kovu" Russell]

If it walks like a dupe, talks like a dupe, and smells like a dupe, well, it's a
dupe. Marking such.

Note that I tested the original bug and did not wind up with any invalid
directories.

Win XP Pro Gold, 2002033009

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125106 ***

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

verified