184289 - [MachO] crash when installing leech.mozdev.org

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186088

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

version : MachO 20021207

When trying to install leech, FizzillaMach immediately crashes.
leech works perfectly in the macosX-trunk builds.

1) I've only tried with 1.1.O as it's the one relevant for me
2) I've only used a downloaded xpi

Comment 1

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

I've done some further testing :

I opened the xpi using Stuffit Expander
The contents of the package is
1) install.js
2) leech (a folder)

I've noticed that other xpi's has the contents as a *jar file, so using ZipIt, I
made the leech folder into leech.jar, repackaged the xpi again and tried anew.

This changed things considerably !
Now, MachO didn't crash but instead reported a -214 error
It seems af if the install script fails to create the required folder in line 4
and falls through to line 19

Now, as the alert box said I might not have the required permissions, I used
Terminal to
1) cd to folder with MachO Mozilla.app
2) sudo chown -R bjarnema:admin Moz*
3) sudo chmod -R 775 Moz*
without any success :-(

Comment 2

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Attachment: install.js script from leech

Comment 3

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Also see bug 186389 - [Mac CFM] leech 1.1.0 doesn't install properly

Comment 4

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

the fix for 189514 doesn't resolve this bug :-(

now, can someone tell me if this is also related to a bug/problem in the leech
installer, or if this is a Mozilla only issue ???

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

this issue has surfaced in several mozdev.org projects...

Comment 6

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

jbetak : please give examples of the other ones.
-- which project
-- what build ID did you use
-- what build ID did you first see this issue with

it's not very helpful just to be told that there are other projects where this
happens too. the programmers need something much more concrete to work with :-)

Comment 7

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Mozilla/5.0 
(Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; da-DK; rv:1.3b; MultiZilla v1.1.34 (d)) 
Gecko/20030221

talkback TB173234W

Comment 8

[Sean Su]

This is a dupe of bug 186088 and bug 196743.  They all basically crash at the
same place.

I tracked down the problem and will post it to bug 186088.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186088 ***