231567 - Linux install of browser.xpi fails with cryptic error message when disk space is low

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217531

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Henny Janssen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Starting standard installation reveals that 54054Mbyte is required.
When <164Mbyte is available, browser.xpi fails with
ERROR -621: browser.xpi installation failed.
Log file:

     Mozilla Navigator (version 1.6)
     -----------------

     ** initInstall: 0
     ** communicatorFolder: /dev/shm/
     ** Insufficient disk space: /dev/shm/
     **   required : 164695 K
     **   available: 108772 K

     Install **FAILED** with error -235  --  01/20/2004 10:11:58



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Remount /dev/shm to 150Mbyte size, if available or install to a small partition
2.Start standard installation to this partition
3.

Actual Results:  
Failed installation

Expected Results:  
Disk space is sufficient, so install

Comment 1

[Alexander Opitz]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217531 ***