Closed Bug 247141 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Firefox requires patch on very recent OS

Categories

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Sun
Solaris
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: Daniel.Sears, Assigned: bugs)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9 I'm running Firefox 0.9 on Solaris 9, Update 5, which is a very recent update release of the OS. When I launch Firefox, it displays a dialog box with the following message: The following patches need to be updated to higher revisions: patch 112785-34 (or higher), currently installed patch 112785-33 ("X11 6.6.1:Xsun patch) This seems like a bug since it's such a recent release and the filename in the contrib directory is firefox-0.9-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz. I assume that any patches required for Solaris 8 would have been roled into Solaris 9 by now. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Solaris 9, U5 2. install Firefox 0.9 3. launch Firefox Actual Results: Displays the following message: The following patches need to be updated to higher revisions: patch 112785-34 (or higher), currently installed patch 112785-33 ("X11 6.6.1:Xsun patch) Expected Results: launch without an error message
Why would this be a bug ? We really need that patch-level. See bug 230598 and bug 233863. We have different lists of required patches for Solaris 2.8 and Solaris 2.9, by the way. (see <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/bootstrap/init.d/moz_patch_checker.dtksh>)
daniel: There is a reason why the patch checker script was introduced. Lots of bogus bug reports here in bugzilla because people were unwilling to apply patches or because they missed critical patches (and the patch revision you are complaining about is required due sunsolve bug#4991847) ... BTW: The patch checker dialog will only come up one (or sometimes two when firefox rebuilds it's XPCOM registry) times (e.g. hit "ignore" two times and the beast will shut up). After that it will only appear if you change something in the firefox installation directoty. Alternatively there is a "secret" env var which can be used to turn the patch checker OFF.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
OS: SunOS → Solaris
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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