21824 - unable to install Mac M12 build from today

Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 18482

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

I downloaded the Mac installer from today and was unable to install any files. I
tried installing in different locations but nothing actually gets installed.

I'd like to eat dogfood but I need the food to eat! :-)

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

note: this is the mozilla installer; the nsinstaller works fine

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Kathy,
Hardware configuration? URL for installer you are using?

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

I downloaded these bits:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/macos/8.x/ppc/1999-12-15-08-M12/
MozMacInstaller-M12.sea.bin

This is on my PowerTowerPro 225 running a clean install of 8.5

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

I installed successfully on my 8.6/G3 config.

Grace,
Could you verify that today's Mozilla Installer works for you on OS 8.5?

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

Kathy,
Could I use this machine for a few minutes to attempt to guage the problem?

Grace,
Do we have the hardware config Kathy mentions in QA? We can attempt to eliminate
hardware/OS config issues before tackling software config issues.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

I have installed and launched on my G3/OS8.5 today- MozMacInstaller
I think we have a PowerTowerPro 225 in lab, I will check that next

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

PDT team,
Since this is apparently not a widespread problem my personal vote is that this
is not a blocker and hence may even be considered -not- dogfood.

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

Installed on PowerTowerPro 225 OS 8.5.1 but no mail installed.
MozMacInstaller for same URL as noted above. 3 .xpis were present in folder but
could not access from TASKS menu. I was able to browse and use composer etc
I double checked the installation on my machine and it does allow MAIL access

Comment 9

[leger]

Putting on PDT- radar.  If this becomes a widespread problem, or occurs on
commercial build, remove PDT- and we'll re-eval.

Comment 10

[Grace Bush]

was successful in installing MozMacInstaller on a PowerTowerPro 225 with todays
M12 build. All components were installed and working

Comment 11

[Samir Gehani]

Kathy,
I'd like to bring closure to this bug by running today's install on your
machine. Could you let me know where it is and when I could use it? Thanks.

Comment 12

[Kathleen :Brade]

ok, the problem was that I was installing and running from a folder with a / in
it.  This is a duplicate of another bug... I'll try to find the bug number...

Comment 13

[Grace Bush]

that is bug 18482-bit me too.

Comment 14

[Kathleen :Brade]

bug 18482 does sound the same but it is marked invalid.  I don't think that this
bug should be marked invalid.  It is definitely a valid bug that the installer
should work with a '/' in it.  Possibly this is a duplicate of #11701 but I'm
not sure yet...

Comment 15

[Kathleen :Brade]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18482 ***

Comment 16

[Kathleen :Brade]

closing my own bug