202985 - mozilla script should sanity check MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[mjbjr]

User-Agent:       Opera/6.12 (Linux 2.4.20 i686; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: http://mozilla.org/

installing, as 'root', 'mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3-sea.tar.gz'

installation goes fine, and I accept the defaults.  'mozilla' automatically starts at the end of the installation.  Close it.

still as 'root'.  Try first post-install startup...

cd to moz install dir, '/usr/local/mozilla', run './mozilla', returns:

localhost mozilla # ./mozilla
./mozilla: line 120: /usr/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: No such file or directory
./mozilla: line 120: exec: /usr/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: cannot execute: No such file or directory

It's looking in the wrong dir for 'run-mozilla.sh', it's in the install dir: '/usr/local/mozilla', NOT
/usr/lib/mozilla/.

I've installed twice, and the same exact thing happens.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

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Actual Results:  
mozilla doesn't start

Expected Results:  
mozilla should have started.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

do you have MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set?  if you do unset it.
if that doesn't help do
sh -x ./mozilla

Comment 2

[mjbjr]

Andrew Schultz nailed it...
Additional Comment #1 From Andrew Schultz 2003-04-22 18:39
do you have MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set?

that was the problem.  It was left over from a previous install, and
was set to '/usr/lib/mozilla'.

I'm not going to change the bug to 'FIXED', even if (?) I can, because the startup script(s)
should have detected that 'run-mozilla.sh' was in the current dir, the default install dir.

Hopefully, the powers that be will fix this.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

this bug would not be FIXED because no patch was checked in to FIX it.
not critical

dunno if this is even a good idea (users at least need a way to know
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is screwed up)
marking NEW anyway and resummarizing

==> Build Config

Comment 4

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

I'm really sick of these bugs.  Users should not be setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
unless they know what they're doing.  I'm very tempted to just make the script
exit with an error if MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is set at all.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

Is there a reason the script still honors MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME (other than
history)?  With soft-link backtracking, it doesn't seem useful for the startup
script.

Comment 6

[(default assignee for unassigned bugs. does not receive bugmail)]

Mass reassign of Build/Config bugs to Leaf.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 191472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Chase Phillips]

Mass reassign of open bugs for [e-mail] to [e-mail].

Comment 9

[Tom]

(In reply to comment #4)
> exit with an error if MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is set at all.
if you clink on a link in thunderbird and it would start firefox, then the firefox launch-script will inherit the thunderbird environment. This environment unfortunately has MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set even though the user did not set it. This can actually prevent firefox from starting up (it does not work in my case, I am investigating whether I have to file a bugreport to mozilla or debian for that)

Comment 10

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass bug cleanup for Core:Build Config.

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