1439283 - Mozilla Build VM is out of date and Sublime Text does not start on boot

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Developer Services :: General, task)

Description

[David R.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180208175058

Steps to reproduce:

* Download http://vmimages.mozilla.net/ovf/FirefoxBuildEnv.ova
* Import into VirtualBox 5.2.6 (with 4096 MB of RAM)
* Start VM



Actual results:

Terminal popped saying it could not get a lock on apt. The terminal eventually disappeared, and nothing else happened. Sublime Text was not installed.


Expected results:

Sublime Text should have appeared as described on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Using_the_VM

Comment 1

[David R.]

Note that running OS updates and rebooting fixed it. Though, I had to choose the correct location for grub. First time through I didn't and I had to delete and import again.

It did download the code and Sublime Text showed up with the mozilla-central directory available for edits.

I would guess that the daily security update cron job was what was locking apt, and the script that installs sublime text didn't wait long enough for it to finish running.

Comment 2

[David R.]

My goal was to try and build Thunderbird. I ended up deleting mozilla-central in order to make room for comm-central. After that I followed the steps from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Thunderbird_build When I tried ./mozilla/mach build, it told me to run ./mozilla/mach bootstrap. I ran into missing or out of date packages or something. Same story when I tried the wget command from here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites

So, I think more than just OS updates are needed to bring the VM up to date. Hopefully someone who knows what they are doing can take a look.