200733 - Installation of Mozilla 1.4a failes because of error caused by XPCOM.DLL

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: GRE, defect)

Description

[Peter Spitzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: mozilla-win32-1.4a-installer-sea.exe

Occurs on end of installation. 
mozilla.exe is not startable (with or without reboot).
Operation system is Windows ME (german edition).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

doesn't block development.

Have you installed in a clean and empty directory ?

Comment 2

[Charles Rosendahl]

What is the exact error message you are seeing?

try uninstalling the old mozilla first and see if the problem corrects itself.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I forgot: 
Do you see a "entry point" / "Prozedureinsprungspunkt nicht gefunden" error ?
 

Comment 4

[Charles Rosendahl]

Has this been resolved on your side using the latest builds?  I am inclined to
close this as wfm, as there are other bugs detailing specific installation and
uninstallation issues at both the GRE and mozilla level.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

via mail:
> Have you installed in a clean and empty directory ?

* This has helped. I have created a new directory and installation into this
"clean and empty" directory was successful. Thanks. 

This is possible caused by old addons like the spellchecker.
You must clean the old installation if you installed addons because the
uninstaller doesn't delete this addons and they can still produce such errors in
a new build.

FYI
You can't repsonse to the bugmail. 
If you want to add a comment open the bug URL, enter your comment in the
"additional Comments" text-field and hit the  "commit" button

-> wfm

Comment 6

[Charles Rosendahl]

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