208768 - installer caused BSOD-and-reboot sometime after saying 'Installing GRE'

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Senji]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

I was installing 1.4 (candidate 1) to replace my old 1.2b install.  I noticed
the installer say that it was Installing GRE, then looked away from my screen. 
When I looked back I briefly saw a BSOD, but was unable to read the text on it
before my computer rebooted itself.

I then attempted the install again when I had returned to Windows, and it worked
fine.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try again with latest 1.4 build ?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4/
Do you have write access to your [Common files] folder (normally located in
[system drive]\Program Files\Common Files)?
If not, may see bug 207978 which is fixed in latest builds.

Comment 2

[Senji]

I do have access to my [Common Files], yes.

The nightly build worked, but then 1.4 rc 1 worked the second-time around...

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

Marking WFM as per reporter comments.
A BSOD is an OS issue which an application cannot trigger, probably a
coincidence that BSOD happened during Mozilla install.

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

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