266591 - Installer stops dirtily after detecting "insufficient disk space"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Christian Tanguy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0

When installer has to stop this way, the end-user is not informed on what has
been done or not : this makes perplexed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
- My computer :
C: (system) 99 MB free
F: 160 MB free
- This version of Firefox (1.0 RC1) is not yet installed.
- You can reproduce this bug with firefox-1.0.en-US.win32.installer.exe or a
localized version.

1. Run installer
2. Accept Agreement
3. Choose costum Setup Type
4. Choose to install in an empty directory (on drive F:)
5. (Components are checked and cannot be unchecket)
6. Uncheck shortcuts
7. It says "Currently installing Firefox Browser", then it prompts a window
showing the error -235 with a message.
Klick OK this.

Actual Results:  
The installer windows stays unchanged.
The user sees no new information, nor button to Cancel or anything.
He can only use the windows close ("x") icone (or Alt+F4).


Expected Results:  
Let the user choose between free some diskspace and then retry, or abort
installation.

Comment 1

[Ray Booysen]

Can we move this to core as Bug #313247 shows the same problem for Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Ray Booysen]

David, can you comment on this?

Comment 3

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Changing to core, since this appears to also happen to thunderbird (and probably happens to Seamonkey also, although I haven't checked yet)
Not sure which installer component this belongs in, leaving in Core/General for triage.

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This is the old xpinstall installer used in Firefox 1.0 which no one has been working on for a while. Changing back

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Robert Strong [:rstrong] (do not email) from comment #6)
> This is the old xpinstall installer used in Firefox 1.0 which no one has
> been working on for a while. Changing back

does that make this bug obsolete

Comment 9

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Yes. When I tried to obsolete many of the old installer bugs I got significant pushback from an active community member and chose to go fight other battles instead of closing bugs that were no longer applicable.