1353777 - Command line installation with Win32 build not processing the /INI parameter, doesn't silently install, and prompts for user interaction.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[chrisjames84]

Attachment: Thunderbird.ini

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

From an elevated command prompt I perform the following commands:
CD c:\thunderbirdinstall
"Thunderbird Setup 52.0.exe" /INI="%CD%\Thunderbird.ini"




Actual results:

The installer launches and prompts for user interaction. 


Expected results:

In the past calling the INI parameter silently installs Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Here's a bug for our installer expert ;-)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I thought something had changed in the past year wrt silent installs, but I'm not finding any relevant bug reports.
And https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments hasn't really changed.

This works in version 45?

Comment 3

[chrisjames84]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #2)
> I thought something had changed in the past year wrt silent installs, but
> I'm not finding any relevant bug reports.
> And https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments hasn't really
> changed.
> 
> This works in version 45?

I believe I have worked out more to the issue.

If the install is launched/ran interactively as a different user than the one currently logged and you try to pass the INI and silent install arguments the installer ignores the arguments and launches the install as if no arguments were used