183448 - having a file called "ns_temp" in %TEMP makes the installer useless

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

if you have a file called "ns_temp" in your %TEMP directory the installer is
unable to extract the files into the "ns_temp" directory since the directory
cant be created bacause the file "ns_temp" already exists.

20021203

either we can just unzip into %TEMP or we need some kind of random directory
name instead of "ns_temp"

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Didn't this get fixed? We're now calling it ns_temp1, ns_temp2, and so on.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

no we dont... still not working
installer just quits if there's a file called ns_temp in the temp directory...

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

->Sean

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

Installer triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429
tried multiple times today with Build IDs 2003042904 and -08, on Win98 and
Win98SE, and had ns_temp2, ns_temp3 ... etc. folders, and ns_temp folder after
first installation, plus ns_temp5 folder. So multiply tested with a FOLDER
ns_temp, should I also test with a FILE?
Hasn´t this bug been fixed with bug 190816?
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190816#c47

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030430
works with a folder named ns_temp, doesn´t work with a file named ns_temp.

I had folders ns_temp2 through ns_temp5 in my temp directory, and when I renamed
a tempfile to ns_temp, I couldn´t start installer.exe, but got no errormessage,
no hint that the programm had started and aborted.
When I renamed file ns_temp to ns_temp6, I could run installer.exe.
Installer ran normally and created two folders, ns_temp and ns_temp7.

Comment 7

[Sean Su]

this bug is not fixed with bug 190816.  this is a different problem.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Seamonkey and Firefox are using a new NSIS based installer. resolving this old
bug, please reopen if you still get this with the new installer