204123 - deinstallation kills all entries in the windows "installed software" menu

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[J. Petasch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

After deinstalltion (mozilla 1.3, german version, exe-file with
installer[mozilla-win32-1.3-deAT-installer.exe])  all entries in the windows
installed software menu are deleted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mozilla 1.3 german (exe-file with installer)
2. Deinstall mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla delete the complete 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
path.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should only delete the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\mozilla...
key. 


Rescue after failure deinstallation: Load the old registry from backup if you have.
Alternate: 1. Save the registry-path with regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall 
2. Deinstall mozilla
3. Restore path from *.reg file
4. Delete the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\mozilla...
key manually

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

grace, can you see if you can reproduce this problem?

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

I cannot reproduce with an En build- used recent moz nightly- it only removes
the expected entries in regedit - and specifically the one entry in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozilla path


the only German version I can find is the zip file which did not add an entry to
my registry

reporter, where did you get the [mozilla-win32-1.3-deAT-installer.exe] file?

Comment 3

[J. Petasch]

File found at:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/l10n/lang/moz1.3/mozilla-win32-1.3-deAT-installer.exe

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

Installed using the -deAT Installer
Uninstalled via control panel/ add-remove programs
only registry entry removed from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall was the
mozilla information.

cannot reproduce

Comment 5

[Márton Németh]

*** Bug 288595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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