161339 - Installer crashes with error on "jar50.dll"

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jamie Chonka]

Desc:
I had downloaded a nightly build, installed it.  Worked fine.  Installed a theme from a frind of mine.  Didn't know it was Mac-only.  Crashed.  Tried to get Moz working again.  No luck.  Completely uninstalled it.

I downloaded the full installer (Moz 1.0), started said program.  Chose install options (install dir and such).  The install/progress window came up, then a windows error came up, saying that thi program had caused an error in "jar50.dll".   It won't finish installation.

Steps to reproduce:
1.Install moz.  Crash with theme.
2.Uninstall completely.
3.Attempt to reinstall any recent version of Moz (haven't tried any of the ancient ones)
4.See error message.
5.Done.

Actual results:
I got the error mesage that this program had caused an error in jar50.dll.

Expected results:
Install the program.

Additional info:
I tried everything to get rid of the effects of the theme/crash.  Every bit of Mozilla is removed from my system.  It is as if I had never installed the program.  And I don't even have a jar50.dll!  Though I did try re-installing when I had the dll; it doesn't work either way.

Comment 1

[David Balch]

Jamie, what was the latest version you tried? Nightly builds occasionally don't
work, so try another.

As "jar50.dll" is a mozilla component, any problem with it should go away when
you delete all of previous installations and perform a clean install.

I'll try a nightly when I get into work (and a decent connection) to see if I
get a problem with jar50.dll in the latest nightly, but I'll be surprised if
there is.

Also, Mozilla themes are (I thought) cross-platform - what was your friend's
theme? If it was an old (sometime pre-moz1) then the problem may have stemmed
from it using obsolete XUL syntax.

Comment 2

[Jamie Chonka]

>Jamie, what was the latest version you tried? Nightly builds occasionally don't
>work, so try another.

I did.  I had downloaded a nightly build and crashed it with this theme, then went to install Mozilla 1.0 after a clean uninstall.  It didn't work, leaving me with that error about the dll.

>As "jar50.dll" is a mozilla component, any problem with it should go away when
>you delete all of previous installations and perform a clean install.

I know, which is why I find it so amazing that it won't install at all due to this non-existant dll.  Every install I have tried has resulted in this error.  I have tried everything from moz 1.0 to the old milestone releases that I had on disk.  Nothing would install.

I've searched the computer using more than one utility, and I know for sure that this dll _does not exist_ on my machine.

>I'll try a nightly when I get into work (and a decent connection) to see if I
>get a problem with jar50.dll in the latest nightly, but I'll be surprised if
>there is.

I don't think there is, because the install worked on another computer that didn't suffer the crash, but did not work on a computer that I had intentionally crashed in the same conditions to test to see if it was reproducable or just a freak occurance.

>Also, Mozilla themes are (I thought) cross-platform - what was your friend's
>theme? If it was an old (sometime pre-moz1) then the problem may have stemmed
>from it using obsolete XUL syntax.

As I understand it, he used some Mac-specific widgets or some such- I had also been under the impression that all themes were cross-platform.  I don't have the old name off-hand, but it is now called MadeForMac. :)  I don't think he's submitted it to any theme sites yet because of this problem.

I can attach the theme here if you want.  It truly had me puzzeled; I tried it on both my linux box and my windows box, and after getting rid of the theme, only the Linux version of Moz worked.  

The theme _was_ pre moz-1.0, and it crashed just as well after he re-wrote it to make sure that it conformed to recent syntax.

Comment 3

[David Balch]

Yes, it would help if you could provide a copy of the theme to try.

Just for the record, WFM 2002080218 WinME, 2002080614 WinNT4

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

works for me. please uninstall mozilla completly before installing a new build.

Comment 5

[Jamie Chonka]

Attachment: Theme that crashed me.

I realise that this got closed before I found the file, but here it is for
anyone still interested.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

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