212103 - XPInstall corrupts the command line to execute

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708

When installing the GoogleBar (for all users), I get errors like:

/bin/chmod: invalid mode string: `\020¸Ç8\020\020±'
/bin/chmod: invalid mode string: `¸Ç8\020\020±'

in the terminal, though the install.log file is correct:

[...]
     ** Googlebar: looking for chmod, got
/bin/chmod
     [1/2]      Executing: /bin/chmod with argument: -R u+rwx,go+r
/home/lefevre/mozilla/lib/mozilla-1.5a/chrome/googlebar/
     [2/2]      Executing: /bin/chmod with argument:  ugo+rw
/home/lefevre/mozilla/lib/mozilla-1.5a/defaults/pref/googlebar.js

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type 'mozilla http://googlebar.mozdev.org/XPI-stable.xpi' in a shell.
2. Choose to install GoogleBar for all the users.

Actual Results:  
GoogleBar is installed, but the chmod commands fail because the command line is
corrupted.

Expected Results:  
The chmod commands should have been executed as indicated by the install.log file.

I first reported the problem here:
  http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3967
but I was told that xpinstall was probably broken.

Comment 1

[Vincent Lefevre]

I no longer have this problem. -> WORKSFORME.