178381 - Repeated Error [-621] during mozilla-installer execution

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 163524

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Tim Redman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux; en_US)
Build Identifier: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.2b-sea.tar.gz

Installing Mozilla as a normal user in the user's home directory.   
Installation worked fine, but a bungled theme install (my fault) forced an  
uninstallation.  Reinstalling the same way, there are a series of seven error  
dialogs after the file copy starts:  
  
Error [-621]: An installer module xpcom.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
Error [-621]: An installer module browser.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
Error [-621]: An installer module mail.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
Error [-621]: An installer module psm.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
Error [-621]: An installer module talkback.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
Error [-621]: An installer module inspector.xpi (.xpi) failed to install.  
The seventh error message is unintelligible characters.  
  
Pressing OK on all but the last dialog does nothing.  Each has to be closed  
via the window manager controls, as does the main installer dialog.  
  
When the user (tredman) attempts to remove the install directory, a 
permissions error is produced.  The install directory looks like this:  
  
total 40  
drwxr-xr-x    3 tredman  tredman      4096 Nov  4 22:49 chrome  
drw-r--r--    2 tredman  tredman      4096 Nov  4 22:49 components  
drwxr-xr-x    3 tredman  tredman      4096 Nov  4 22:49 defaults  
-rw-r--r--    1 tredman  tredman     18973 Nov  4 22:49 install.log  
-rw-r--r--    1 tredman  tredman       335 Nov  4 22:49 registry  
drwxr-xr-x    2 tredman  tredman      4096 Nov  4 22:49 searchplugins  
  
However any attempt to remove the components directory, or even cd to it,  
results in:  
  
rm: cannot change to directory `components': Permission denied  
  
even though the user and the user's group owns all of the files in the tree. 
 
 
  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Run ./mozilla-installer from expanded archive. 
2. 
3. 
Actual Results:  
See Details 

Expected Results:  
Installation should be complete after this step. 

The .mozilla, .netscape and .netscape6 directories were removed, and the 
.mozconfig file was removed in order to provide a clean install.  The errors 
did not go away.

Comment 1

[Tamas Sarga]

I tried reproduce this bug with the 2002101612 build, but I can not. The
.netscape and .netscape6 dictionary is used only by the older versions, I think
the .mozconfig alse unused now.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

components dir not having execute permission is bug 163524

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

This is basically the same as bug 163524. The dialog boxes reporting error
[-621] are the visible results of the installer being unable to add any files to
the components directory.

The "components" directory won't have any files in it, so you can remove it with
the rmdir command.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163524 ***

Comment 4

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified as a dupe of bug 163524