100262 - 0.9.4 linux installer crashes with Custom option

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97249

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Scott McPeak]

The 0.9.4 installer for Linux crashes when custom components are selected:

  - download mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
  - unpack it; cd into mozilla-installer
  - run ./mozilla-installer
  - "next" at readme
  - "accept" at license statement
  - choose "custom" components
  - pick alternate destination directory: "/tmp/mozilla-0.9.4"
  - "next", "yes" to confirmation
  - pick only Navigator and Quality Feedback Agent (i.e. deselect others)
  - "next"
  - "install"

At this point installer chugs away, apparently downloading all the necessary
files.  During this process many warnings are seen in the controlling tty:

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkprogress.c: line 518 (gtk_progress_set_percentage):
assertion `percentage >= 0 && percentage <= 1.0' failed.
but these appear harmless.  Finally, the gui dialog closes and it segfaults:

./mozilla-installer: line 55:  7965 Segmentation fault    ./mozilla-installer-
bin --sync $@

(the above text was typed by hand, because 0.9.3's copy+paste isn't working
right, so it might have small typographical errors)
After this failure I blew away the xpi/ directory and tried again, this time
choosing Navigator Only instead of Custom, and the installer worked.  So I
think it has to do with the Custom option.

My system stats:
  Linux on x86
  glibc 2.1.2
  gtk 1.2.8
  kernel 2.2.19

At the time I was running 0.9.3 in another process, I doubt that matters though.

Comment 1

[gabriel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89925 ***

Comment 2

[Scott McPeak]

I don't understand why this is considered a duplicate of 89925.  89925
talks about an assertion failure (which I do not see, even when using the
repro procedure in that bug report, in 0.9.4).  This report documents a
segfault, and it occurs under different circumstances.

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

I am seeing this with this setup type (Nav/talkback)- adding crash keyword

I do not see with typical or complete setup  types- during those installs, you
get the gtk errors but the install completes. (bug 83478)

no install log

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Confirmed/reproduced by Grace. nominating because this is a supposedly supported
configuration in the commercial installer as well.

Grace, could you check windows too? Could easily be someone added an XP dependency.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

this is not crashing on WinNT- 

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

crashing today  - N6 branch- Navigator only

Comment 7

[Grace Bush]

branch build 2001092404

Comment 8

[Cindy Roberts]

Syd, is this something that you think is serious enough to fix for eMojo?  From
the comments it seems like it is.  If you (or someone on your team) can fix this
in the next day or so, please mark it nsbranch+ if it's a major crasher.  If
not, please mark as nsbranch-.

Comment 9

[Syd Logan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97249 ***

Comment 10

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified as a duplicate of 97249