143160 - [linux] Installer dies if no LANG environment variable

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 143132

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[John Morrison]

I have a locally configured account on one of my test machines. That 
account was added, IIRC, just by adding the user to /etc/passwd and 
creating a home directory manually. 

At any rate, for that simple profile, there is no LANG environment 
variable when that user runs a shell.

With current builds, including the latest mozilla branch build 
2002-05-08-10-1.0.0 the installer dies at the point that it has 
downloaded all the xpi and is saying "Installing XPInstall Engine".

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Adding nsbeta1. We shouldn't depend on that var being set in order to install,
should we?

(I've been through these steps again in creating the account, but now I can't
seem to create an account that has no LANG var if I'm using the normal 'login'
shell. 
However, this machine has been configured to use 'autologin', which bypasses the
normal login and logs the user in without a password and starts X.).

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

er, to be clear, this is the Linux installer.

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

This appears to be bugscape http://bugscape.netscape.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15325
and my comment about autologin seems to not be the problem.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 143132?

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

duping to bug 143132 on the presumption that this bug will be fixed by the 
checkin there. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143132 ***

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

verified fixed/dup with 05/09 1.0.0 branch build on the linux box where I was 
crashing during install yesterday.