185001 - Multi-user installation doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 163524

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[David Jarvie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
Build Identifier: ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2.1/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.2.1.sea.tar.gz

I installed mozilla as root in /usr/local/mozilla and followed the instructions 
in the release notes to set up multi-user access. However, although I could run 
Mozilla as root, but for other users it immediately exits without ever showing 
any graphical windows. I verified that the path wasn't the problem by running 
it from the command line using the full path to the new 
installation: /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla.

I tried the installation from scratch 3 or 4 times with the same result.

I notice that the file components.reg which was created with mozilla 1.0.1 is 
not created with mozilla 1.2.1 (don't know whether this is a problem or not).

Note that multi-user install worked OK with mozilla 1.0.1, so something seems 
to have changed for 1.2 and 1.2.1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. 'su -' to log on as root.
2. Change to mozilla-installer directory and run ./mozilla-installer.
3. Select Navigator, Mail and News to install.
4. Log on to internet.
5. Allow mozilla to run (as root) using default configuration.
6. Create the script described in the release notes under 'multi-user 
installs', and run it in /usr/local/mozilla. (No errors occurred.)
7. Try to run mozilla as an ordinary user from command 
line: '/usr/local/mozilla/mozilla'

Actual Results:  
The command to run mozilla always immediately exits with no error message. No 
graphical windows appear.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have started.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Can you please check the permisssions for the subfolder "components" ?
User should have excecute permissions for this directory.

Comment 2

[David Jarvie]

The 'components' directory in the mozilla installation has permissions rw-r--r--
(644), i.e. no execute permissions at all. Changing it to 755 fixes the problem
- ordinary users can now run mozilla.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

v dupe...