184844 - On Linux full install crashes - "failed to install langenus.xpi"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 144331

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Richard M Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2.1/

Have tried at least four times to install Mozilla 1.2.1 on Linux (RH7.2), as
root, to a clean directory. Installer fails near end with "-622: failure
installing langenus.xpi" (paraphrase: error window contents get wiped when
backgrounded).

Have tried both full and network installer with same results.

No previous problems encountered installing versions from at least 1.0b through
1.2. No reason to suspect file permissions.All other parts of install successful.

Will continue using 1.2 until resolved!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download full installer to /tmp
2. su
3. clear out target directory
4. unzip/untar
5. run mozilla-installer


Actual Results:  
See details.

Install.log extract:

file:///tmp/mozilla-installer/./xpi/langenus.xpi  --  12/11/2002 10:53:20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     ** initInstall: platformNode=unix
     English (US) Language Pack
     --------------------------

     ** initInstall: 0
     ** fProgram: /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/
     ** addDirectory() returned: 0
     [1/25]     Installing: /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/chrome/en-win.jar
     [2/25]     Installing: /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/chrome/en-unix.jar
     [3/25]     Installing: /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/chrome/en-mac.jar
     [4/25]     Installing: /usr/local/mozilla1.2.1/chrome/en-US.jar
     [5/25]     Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/
     [6/25]     Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/communicator/
     [7/25]     Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/messenger/
     [8/25]     Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/messenger-smime/
     [9/25]     Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/editor/
     [10/25]    Register Locale:
jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/navigator/
     [11/25]    Register Locale: jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/aim/
     ** performInstall() returned: -239

     Install **FAILED** with error -239  --  12/11/2002 10:53:20


Expected Results:  
Finished installing cleanly.

If a bug, possibly related to #125170, but not clear how to try suggested fixes
when doing full install from scratch.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

do you have MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable set (bug 144331)?  that tends
to make random things happen that are generally bad.

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

I've seen similar thing when run 'mozilla-install-bin' instead of just
'mozilla-install'.
The latter works fine.

Comment 3

[Artur Polaczynski]

its propably duplcate of 125170


 jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/aim/
 jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/net2phone/

not exist in this package

fast/dirty  workaround 
comment this 2 lines  in instal.js in this package 

Comment 4

[Richard M Davis]

Andrew's suggestion seems to be thw winner, namely I changed MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
to the destination of my new install.

In fact I remember now that only since installing 1.2 did I change my .rc to set
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME automatically, so there you go, problem solved (though perhaps
the installer should handle this differently/better ;)

Thanks all.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

FIXED is reserved for bugs that have been fixed by code patches

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

this is a dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144331 ***

Comment 7

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified as a dupe of bug 144331