251906 - Installer fails

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[John Liebson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040716 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040716 Firefox/0.9.1+

Run the installer, this error appears:
Error occurred during installation - US Region Pack: -208 INVALID_ARGUMENTS

Install fails, program never registers with Windows XP, will not run.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. As stated above: After removing the build shown above, ran .exe.
2. Process failed.
3. Firefox will not run; Profile Manager will create new profile, but FF will
not run using that profile.

Actual Results:  
Had to use Alt-ctrl-del to kill the Firefox.exe process.

This is repeatable, both with existing and new profile.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have started; I'd guess the UA, if that is working, would be
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/2004071\76
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

this may be the same issue as bug 251846, but I'm not sure. sounds possible, so
reassigning to bsmedberg and marking dependent.

anyway, today's installer is busted.

Comment 2

[Altuhov Dmitriy]

When will correced this bug?!
I can't use FireFox!

Comment 3

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

Dmitry: this only affects the installer, and bug 251846 (caused by same checkin)
is ancillary and possibly fixed.  Either use a zip build or a build that's only
a few days old in the meantime.

Comment 4

[Altuhov Dmitriy]

In build 2004/07/18 it was fixed!

Comment 5

[Thomas Rutter]

I have build 20040718 (installer) and this bug _still exists_ in the installer
exactly described.

My UA string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040718
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 6

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

The official win32 branch nightly from 7/19 works with the win32 installer
build.  I guess this can be marked RESOLVED/FIXED.

Comment 7

[Albert R.]

WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719
Firefox/0.9.1+.  Is there another step needed that wasn't mentioned?  I just
used the standard install over my 0.9.1 install.

Comment 8

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** Bug 252155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

More people are confirming the installerbuild works again.
Is there a reason this bug is still NEW ?

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The installer build does _not_ work. 

The install for the latest Firefox windows build fails with the error US Region
Pack -208 INVALID_ARGUMENTS. 

After I forceably exit the installer, and launch
Firefox, I get the XML error:

       <menu label="&charsetMenu.label;" accesskey="&charsetMenu.accesskey;"
-------^

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

hrm. I guess I was wrong. I can no longer reproduce. I suppose it's possible
that one of the mirrors hadn't updated yet and I got yesterday's build. removing
smoketest keyword and I'll let someone else resolve this if they can confirm
that it's working.

Comment 12

[Steffen Wilberg]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040719
Firefox/0.9.1+ from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-07-19-10-0.9/FirefoxSetup.exe
, as well as a installer made from my own tree.

bsmedberg made some changes between 06:03 and 06:03 PDT today. Installer builds
made in this small timeframe were broken.

Comment 13

[Michael Lefevre]

verified - definitely works

"I suppose it's possible that one of the mirrors hadn't updated yet and I got
yesterday's build."

I've seen two other reports of people being unable to find today's Firefox build
- I guess one of the primary mirrors was behind. I've just checked them all and
they all seem to have it now.