273647 - downloaded setup.exe from several sites including mozilla mirror site and all opened with error saying application error and would not run setup

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[davis miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: 

setup would not run on my xp machine. came back with application error

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[OstGote!]

What is the exact error message?

Give an URL for a file and a checksum for that, so others can check if you have
a corrupt file or not.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

please provide more information (exact url, error message and checksum) and reopen.

Comment 3

[davis miller]

1. at mozilla.org I bug on the download firefox 1.0 for windows, english (4.7 
mb)
2.xp returns a security warning, about setup.exe, asking if I want to run or 
save file. I have tried both direct run and save and then run setup.exe. it 
then comes back with a warning saying unknown publisher, do I want to continue.
3. When I do run or save setup will be extracted and then I get the following 
error report:
The application failed to initialize properly(0x0000005) Click to cancel 
application.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

-> Installer

From private mail:

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I downloaded the setup file from numerous sites to and including:
 
mirrors.xmission.com
sunsite.redires.es
mirror.switch.ch
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I duplicated the same actions using netscape instead of explorer and I
downloaded from:
 
//ftp:/64.12.168.243/pub/mozill.org/firefox/releases and the I got the same
result/message as before
 
The application failed to initialize properly(0xc0000005) Please click OK to
terminate application.
 
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total size of the file setup.exe for firefox 1.0 that I downloaded was 4803 kb
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Comment 5

[Dan Maftei]

It seems to me that there is rather an Internet Explorer bug here :)
I got the same error message after downloading (using IE 6/ Windows 2000)the
Firefox installer (1.0) from a ftp server (I don't remember the host). 
I think that IE performed an ASCII transfer from the FTP site, instead of a
binary one. 
Solution: try downloading the Firefox setup file using a real FTP client, not IE.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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