153768 - Startup script doesn't handle softlinks correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57866

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[deane]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610
BuildID:    2002061108

The "mozilla" shell script contains an 'until' loop which will exit if
"run-mozilla.sh" is found, or "$progname" is not a link.

The loop first tests to see if "run-mozilla.sh" can be found in the same
directory as "$progname".  If not, then it dereferences "$progname" by following
the link, and the loop continues.

However, this is backwards: when the final link is dereferenced, the loop will
will see that "$progname" no longer contains a link and will exit *before*
testing to see if the new directory contains "run-mozilla.sh".  It should do the
dereference first, *then* check to see if the new directory contains
"run-mozilla.sh".

As a result, if you softlink to the "mozilla" script then try to run it through
that link, it will fail and say that it cannot find the runtime directory.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install 1.1a into /usr/local/mozilla
2.ln -s /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla /usr/local/bin/mozilla
3.run /usr/local/bin/mozilla


Actual Results:  Got the following message:

  Cannot find mozilla runtime directory. Exiting.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have run.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57866 ***