382598 - The Installer can't relplace nmozMapi32.dll, 'cause it isn't there

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 452162

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Frank Scherthan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en; rv:1.8.0) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0 Opera 9.20
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.8

Trying to update Thunderbird from 1.5.0.8 to 2.0.0.0 via automatic update was not possible. Without knowing why, it always tried to install, but failed.
After restarting the Computer, i got the Errormessage, that nmozMapi32.dll couldn't be updated. Renaming mozMapi32.dll to nmozMapi32.dll resolved the Probelem! Thunderbird was insatlled, everything seems fine...

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It wasn't really trying to update nmozMapi32.dll, that's just a stray character from an error message that includes \r\n instead of an actual newline. Renaming to nmozMapi32.dll would have worked because whatever else you have, like a webcam, that was locking mozMapi32.dll, wasn't able to find it to lock it once you changed the name.