171355 - Installer does not start - config.ini is missing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Christopher Curzio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020914
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020914

The installer from the latest nightly does not start. Running
./mozilla-installer just kicks you back to the prompt. Nothing shows up in ps,
and Mozilla is not running when attempting to start the installer. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download today's nightly
2. Attempt to start installation

Actual Results:  
Nothing. 

Expected Results:  
Start the installer.

Comment 1

[Christopher Curzio]

Attachment: strace of ./mozilla-installer

This is the result of running an strace on the installer. Don't know if it will
help, but there it is.

Comment 2

[Christopher Curzio]

Downloaded 1.01 to see if that installer would work, and to make sure this isn't
some weird error with my box. The installer started fine. 

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

self-extracing or net installer?
conceivably, you picked up the 9-27 21:00:00 build

mozilla-installer is a script, so stracing it doesn't show much.  you need to do
"strace -f" or strace the mozilla-installer-bin (after setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

Comment 4

[djdave]

I'm seeing this with 2002-09-28-04-trunk build (self-extracting version).

The installer archive is missing the config.ini file.

stat64("config.ini.C", 0xbffff8ac)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("config.ini", 0xbffff8ac)        = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
_exit(-604)

Comment 5

[Christopher Curzio]

Attachment: Second strace

I picked up the self-extracting installer. 

Here's the strace from mozilla-installer.bin

Comment 6

[R.B.]

Seems it is a packaging error. I downloaded mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar, 
in which there was no config.ini file in the mozilla-installer directory, and
the script exited immediately. I copied config.ini from a previous nightly and
was eventually able to install (Build ID: 2002092804).

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm getting the same with linux trunk build 2002092804

makring NEW

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

*** Bug 171526 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

I think there were some changes to config.ini due to TypeAheadFind. May have
caused this?

Workaround is to download 2002092708 build (last working), and change all of the
URL0 lines to point to 2002-09-29-04-trunk

In vim: :%s/2002-09-27-08-trunk/2002-09-29-04-trunk/

Should see confirmation 12 changes were made.

Comment 10

[Andrew Schultz]

the typeaheadfind is no longer an xpi.  it should be removed from config.ini
(component 11).  See:

http://download.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2002-09-29-04-trunk/linux-xpi/

Comment 11

[Arthur]

CCing a few people that might know something about this. I didn't see anything
obviously wrong in the checkins I've had a look at. This is a blocker, please
have a look at it.

Comment 12

[Andrew Schultz]

the distributed config.ini is not part of CVS.  this is a packaging problem

Comment 13

[Aaron Leventhal]

This should probably me marked a dup of bug 166712, which I reopened. I made
some mistakes which the new patch in there fixes. I'm still seeking sr=dveditz.

Comment 14

[Aaron Leventhal]

I just corrected some of the errors from my checkin to bug 166712 - let me know
if that corrects the problem.

Comment 15

[Andrew Schultz]

sea installer archive for build 2002100104 is ok.  config.ini is included and
installing works fine.

Comment 16

[Aaron Leventhal]

fixed

Comment 17

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

config.ini in sea and installer builds today.

Comment 18

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 171835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***