267322 - Manual software update fails for firefox 1.0 Preview Release

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[bugzzzz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

The update operation leads to an error message and user profile is corrupted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start firefox as root
2.Select Edit->Preferences->Software update->Check Now->firefox 1.0 Preview
Release->Install Now
3.

Actual Results:  
A window indicates a download.
Then an error message indicates that the installation has failed.
As a result, the user profile is corrupted, when Firefox is restarted, an empty
window is displayed instead of the browser. If the directory .mozilla is
restored, the browser starts normally.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Without more information, this isn't going to be a blocker. Can you test with
the builds from
http://ftp24moz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/ and let us
know if that works?

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

Please try these instructions to update from 1.0PR to 1.0RC2:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/qa/softwareupdate.html

Comment 3

[bugzzzz]

The problem is that I have re-installed the last version (20041108 
Firefox/1.0). But I'm gonna do it ... soon ... 
 
(In reply to comment #2) 
> Please try these instructions to update from 1.0PR to 1.0RC2: 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/qa/softwareupdate.html 
 
 

Comment 4

[Frederic Bezies]

Bugday 23 nov 2004

Reporter, please upgrade to firefox 1.0 and tell us if is still crash

Thanks.

Resolving WONTFIX as 1.0 is out.

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

after some talking on #mozillazine, reopening it. Sorry for spamming !

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

Probaly no longer needed as 1.0 has been released.  Reporter, reopen of if feel
this was done in error.